Chapter 3

.LII.--How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that

the fire is not able to consume it

THE FOURTH BOOK.

The Translator’s Preface

The Author’s Epistle Dedicatory

The Author’s Prologue

## Chapter 4 .I.--How Pantagruel went to sea to visit the oracle of Bacbuc,

alias the Holy Bottle

## Chapter 4 .II.--How Pantagruel bought many rarities in the island of

Medamothy

## Chapter 4 .III.--How Pantagruel received a letter from his father Gargantua,

and of the strange way to have speedy news from far distant places

## Chapter 4 .IV.--How Pantagruel writ to his father Gargantua, and sent him

several curiosities

## Chapter 4 .V.--How Pantagruel met a ship with passengers returning from

Lantern-land

## Chapter 4 .VI.--How, the fray being over, Panurge cheapened one of

Dingdong’s sheep

## Chapter 4 .VII.--Which if you read you’ll find how Panurge bargained with

Dingdong

## Chapter 4 .VIII.--How Panurge caused Dingdong and his sheep to be drowned in

the sea

## Chapter 4 .IX.--How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Ennasin, and of the

strange ways of being akin in that country

## Chapter 4 .X.--How Pantagruel went ashore at the island of Chely, where he

saw King St. Panigon

## Chapter 4 .XI.--Why monks love to be in kitchens

## Chapter 4 .XII.--How Pantagruel passed by the land of Pettifogging, and of

the strange way of living among the Catchpoles

## Chapter 4 .XIII.--How, like Master Francis Villon, the Lord of Basche

commended his servants

## Chapter 4 .XIV.--A further account of catchpoles who were drubbed at

Basche’s house

## Chapter 4 .XV.--How the ancient custom at nuptials is renewed by the

catchpole

## Chapter 4 .XVI.--How Friar John made trial of the nature of the catchpoles

## Chapter 4 .XVII.--How Pantagruel came to the islands of Tohu and Bohu; and

of the strange death of Wide-nostrils, the swallower of windmills

## Chapter 4 .XVIII.--How Pantagruel met with a great storm at sea

## Chapter 4 .XIX.--What countenances Panurge and Friar John kept during the

storm

## Chapter 4 .XX.--How the pilots were forsaking their ships in the greatest

stress of weather

## Chapter 4 .XXI.--A continuation of the storm, with a short discourse on the

subject of making testaments at sea

## Chapter 4 .XXII.--An end of the storm

## Chapter 4 .XXIII.--How Panurge played the good fellow when the storm was

over

## Chapter 4 .XXIV.--How Panurge was said to have been afraid without reason

during the storm

## Chapter 4 .XXV.--How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the

islands of the Macreons

## Chapter 4 .XXVI.--How the good Macrobius gave us an account of the mansion

and decease of the heroes

## Chapter 4 .XXVII.--Pantagruel’s discourse of the decease of heroic souls;

and of the dreadful prodigies that happened before the death of the late Lord de Langey

## Chapter 4 .XXVIII.--How Pantagruel related a very sad story of the death of

the heroes

## Chapter 4 .XXIX.--How Pantagruel sailed by the Sneaking Island, where

Shrovetide reigned

## Chapter 4 .XXX.--How Shrovetide is anatomized and described by Xenomanes

## Chapter 4 .XXXI.--Shrovetide’s outward parts anatomized

## Chapter 4 .XXXII.--A continuation of Shrovetide’s countenance

## Chapter 4 .XXXIII.--How Pantagruel discovered a monstrous physeter, or

whirlpool, near the Wild Island

## Chapter 4 .XXXIV.--How the monstrous physeter was slain by Pantagruel

## Chapter 4 .XXXV.--How Pantagruel went on shore in the Wild Island, the

ancient abode of the Chitterlings

## Chapter 4 .XXXVI.--How the wild Chitterlings laid an ambuscado for

Pantagruel

## Chapter 4 .XXXVII.--How Pantagruel sent for Colonel Maul-chitterling and

Colonel Cut-pudding; with a discourse well worth your hearing about the names of places and persons

## Chapter 4 .XXXVIII.--How Chitterlings are not to be slighted by men

## Chapter 4 .XXXIX.--How Friar John joined with the cooks to fight the

Chitterlings

## Chapter 4 .XL.--How Friar John fitted up the sow; and of the valiant cooks

that went into it

## Chapter 4 .XLI.--How Pantagruel broke the Chitterlings at the knees

## Chapter 4 .XLII.--How Pantagruel held a treaty with Niphleseth, Queen of the

Chitterlings

## Chapter 4 .XLIII.--How Pantagruel went into the island of Ruach

## Chapter 4 .XLIV.--How small rain lays a high wind

## Chapter 4 .XLV.--How Pantagruel went ashore in the island of Pope-Figland

## Chapter 4 .XLVI.--How a junior devil was fooled by a husbandman of Pope-

Figland

## Chapter 4 .XLVII.--How the devil was deceived by an old woman of Pope-

Figland

## Chapter 4 .XLVIII.--How Pantagruel went ashore at the island of Papimany

## Chapter 4 .XLIX.--How Homenas, Bishop of Papimany, showed us the Uranopet

decretals

## Chapter 4 .L.--How Homenas showed us the archetype, or representation of a

pope

## Chapter 4 .LI.--Table-talk in praise of the decretals

## Chapter 4 .LII.--A continuation of the miracles caused by the decretals

## Chapter 4 .LIII.--How, by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely

drawn out of France to Rome

## Chapter 4 .LIV.--How Homenas gave Pantagruel some bon-Christian pears

## Chapter 4 .LV.--How Pantagruel, being at sea, heard various unfrozen words

## Chapter 4 .LVI.--How among the frozen words Pantagruel found some odd ones

## Chapter 4 .LVII.--How Pantagruel went ashore at the dwelling of Gaster, the

first master of arts in the world

## Chapter 4 .LVIII.--How, at the court of the master of ingenuity, Pantagruel

detested the Engastrimythes and the Gastrolaters

## Chapter 4 .LIX.--Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the

Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god

## Chapter 4 .LX.--What the Gastrolaters sacrificed to their god on interlarded

fish-days

## Chapter 4 .LXI.--How Gaster invented means to get and preserve corn

## Chapter 4 .LXII.--How Gaster invented an art to avoid being hurt or touched

by cannon-balls

## Chapter 4 .LXIII.--How Pantagruel fell asleep near the island of Chaneph,

and of the problems proposed to be solved when he waked

## Chapter 4 .LXIV.--How Pantagruel gave no answer to the problems

## Chapter 4 .LXV.--How Pantagruel passed the time with his servants

## Chapter 4 .LXVI.--How, by Pantagruel’s order, the Muses were saluted near

the isle of Ganabim

## Chapter 4 .LXVII.--How Panurge berayed himself for fear; and of the huge cat

Rodilardus, which he took for a puny devil

THE FIFTH BOOK.

The Author’s Prologue

## Chapter 5 .I.--How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the

noise that we heard

## Chapter 5 .II.--How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines,

who were become birds

## Chapter 5 .III.--How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island

## Chapter 5 .IV.--How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers

## Chapter 5 .V.--Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island

## Chapter 5 .VI.--How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island

## Chapter 5 .VII.--How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the

horse and the ass

## Chapter 5 .VIII.--How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk

## Chapter 5 .IX.--How we arrived at the island of Tools

## Chapter 5 .X.--How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping

## Chapter 5 .XI.--How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all,

Archduke of the Furred Law-cats

## Chapter 5 .XII.--How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us

## Chapter 5 .XIII.--How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all’s riddle

## Chapter 5 .XIV.--How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption

## Chapter 5 .XV.--How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats

## Chapter 5 .XVI.--How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or

Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures and monsters there

## Chapter 5 .XVII.--How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have

been killed

## Chapter 5 .XVIII.--How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some

people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte)

## Chapter 5 .XIX.--How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy

## Chapter 5 .XX.--How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song

## Chapter 5 .XXI.--How the Queen passed her time after dinner

## Chapter 5 .XXII.--How Queen Whims’ officers were employed; and how the said

lady retained us among her abstractors

## Chapter 5 .XXIII.--How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of

eating

## Chapter 5 .XXIV.--How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at

which Queen Whims was present

## Chapter 5 .XXV.--How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought

## Chapter 5 .XXVI.--How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up

and down

## Chapter 5 .XXVII.--How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of

Semiquaver Friars

## Chapter 5 .XXVIII.--How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and

was only answered in monosyllables

## Chapter 5 .XXIX.--How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent

## Chapter 5 .XXX.--How we came to the land of Satin

## Chapter 5 .XXXI.--How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school

of vouching

## Chapter 5 .XXXII.--How we came in sight of Lantern-land

## Chapter 5 .XXXIII.--How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to

Lantern-land

## Chapter 5 .XXXIV.--How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle

## Chapter 5 .XXXV.--How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy

Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world

## Chapter 5 .XXXVI.--How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge’s

fear

## Chapter 5 .XXXVII.--How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of

themselves

## Chapter 5 .XXXVIII.--Of the temple’s admirable pavement

## Chapter 5 .XXXIX.--How we saw Bacchus’s army drawn up in battalia in mosaic

work

## Chapter 5 .XL.--How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the

Indians was represented in mosaic work

## Chapter 5 .XLI.--How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp

## Chapter 5 .XLII.--How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in

the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it

## Chapter 5 .XLIII.--How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to

have the word of the Bottle

## Chapter 5 .XLIV.--How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the

Holy Bottle

## Chapter 5 .XLV.--How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle

## Chapter 5 .XLVI.--How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury

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