The Fifth Book

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The Fifth Book by François Rabelais

The Author's Prologue→

Information about this edition Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux

THE FIFTH BOOK.

The Author's Prologue

Chapter I - How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard

Chapter II - How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds

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

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

Chapter V - Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island

Chapter VI - How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island

Chapter VII - How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass

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

Chapter IX - How we arrived at the island of Tools

Chapter X - How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping

Chapter XI - How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats

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

Chapter XIII - How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle

Chapter XIV - How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption

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

Chapter 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 XVII - How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed

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

Chapter XX - How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song

Chapter XXI - How the Queen passed her time after dinner

Chapter XXII - How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors

Chapter XXIII - How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating

Chapter XXIV - How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present

Chapter XXV - How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought

Chapter XXVI - How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down

Chapter XXVII - How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars

Chapter XXVIII - How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables

Chapter XXIX - How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent

Chapter XXX - How we came to the land of Satin

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

Chapter XXXII - How we came in sight of Lantern-land

Chapter XXXIII - How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land

Chapter XXXIV - How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle

Chapter 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 XXXVI - How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fearl

Chapter XXXVII - How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves

Chapter XXXVIII - Of the temple's admirable pavement

Chapter XXXIX - How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work

Chapter XL - How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work

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

Chapter 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 XLIII - How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle

Chapter XLIV - How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle

Chapter XLV - How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle

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

Chapter XLVII - How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.