Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
Rabelais
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Rabelais · 48 chapters
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speak the truth and shame the devil. Be cheery, my lads;
Men shall no longer be thought fools next green peas season.
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- Chapter 5. I.—How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heardSample
- 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
- Chapter 5. XLVII.—How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle