FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF
Book II.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
The Author's Prologue.
THE SECOND BOOK.
Chapter 2.I. Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel.
Chapter 2.II. Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel.
Chapter 2.III. Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec.
Chapter 2.IV. Of the infancy of Pantagruel.
Chapter 2.V. Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age.
Chapter 2.VI. How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too
Chapter 2.VII. How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor.
Chapter 2.VIII. How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received
Chapter 2.IX. How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime.
Chapter 2.X. How Pantagruel judged so equitably of a
Chapter 2.XI. How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney.
Chapter 2.XII. How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel.
Chapter 2.XIII. How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords.
Chapter 2.XIV. How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks.
Chapter 2.XV. How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris.
Chapter 2.XVI. Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge.
Chapter 2.XVII. How Panurge gained the pardons, and married
Chapter 2.XVIII. How a great scholar of England would have
Chapter 2.XIX. How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs.
Chapter 2.XX. How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge.
Chapter 2.XXI. How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris.
Chapter 2.XXII. How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well.
Chapter 2.XXIII. How Pantagruel departed from Paris, hearing
Chapter 2.XXIV. A letter which a messenger brought to
Chapter 2.XXV. How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and
Chapter 2.XXVI. How Pantagruel and his company were weary in
Chapter 2.XXVII. How Pantagruel set up one trophy in memorial
Chapter 2.XXVIII. How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants.
Chapter 2.XXIX. How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred
Chapter 2.XXX. How Epistemon, who had his head cut off, was
Chapter 2.XXXI. How Pantagruel entered into the city of the
Chapter 2.XXXII. How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a
Chapter 2.XXXIII. How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered.
Chapter 2.XXXIV. The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author.