For the Reader
Mr. Hugh Salel to Rabelais
The Author’s Prologue
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 affectedly did counterfeit the French
language
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 letters from his father Gargantua,
and the copy of them
Chapter 2.IX.—How Pantagruel found Panurge,
whom he loved all his lifetime
Chapter 2.X.—How Pantagruel judged so equitably
of a controversy, which was wonderfully obscure and
difficult, that, by reason of his just decree therein,
he was reputed to have a most admirable judgment
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 the old women, and of the suit
in law which he had at Paris
Chapter 2.XVIII.—How a great scholar of
England would have argued against Pantagruel, and
was overcome by Panurge
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 news that the Dipsodes had invaded
the land of the Amaurots; and the cause wherefore the
leagues are so short in France
Chapter 2.XXIV.—A letter which a messenger
brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, together
with the exposition of a posy written in a gold ring
Chapter 2.XXV.—How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes,
and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel,
vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore
horsemen very cunningly
Chapter 2.XXVI.—How Pantagruel and his
company were weary in eating still salt meats; and
how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison
