巨人传(上卷)1-3电子书

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François Rabelais

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INTRODUCTION

BOOK I

THE AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1.I.——Of the Genealogy and Antiquity of Gargantua.

CHAPTER 1.II.——The Antidoted Fanfreluches: or,a Galimatia of extravagant Conceits found in an ancient Monument.

CHAPTER 1.III.——How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother's belly.

CHAPTER 1.IV.——How Gargamelle, being great with Gargantua, did eat a huge deal of tripes.

CHAPTER 1.V.——The Discourse of the Drinkers.

CHAPTER 1.VI.——How Gargantua was born in a strange manner.

CHAPTER 1.VII.——After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can.

CHAPTER 1.VIII.——How they apparelled Gargantua.

CHAPTER 1.IX.——The colours and liveries of Gargantua.

CHAPTER 1.X.——Of that which is signified by the colours white and blue.

CHAPTER 1.XI.——Of the youthful age of Gargantua.

CHAPTER 1.XII.——Of Gargantua's wooden horses.

CHAPTER 1.XIII.——How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech.

CHAPTER 1.XIV.——How Gargantua was taught Latin by a Sophister.

CHAPTER 1.XV.——How Gargantua was put under other schoolmasters.

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CHAPTER 1.XVII.——How Gargantua paid his iilhPttwecomeoearsans,anbde lhlso wof hOe utro oLka dawy'as yC thhue rgcrhe. at

CHAPTER 1.XVIII.——How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to Gargantua to recover the great bells.

CHAPTER 1.XIX.——The oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo for recovery of the bells.

CHAPTER 1.XX.——How the Sophister carried away his cloth, and how he had a suit in law against the other masters.

CHAPTER 1.XXI.——The study of Gargantua,according to the discipline of his schoolmasters the Sophisters.

CHAPTER 1.XXII.——The games of Gargantua.

CHAPTER 1.XXIII.——How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated,that he lost not one hour of the day.

CHAPTER 1.XXIV.——How Gargantua spent his time in rainy weather.

CHAPTER 1.XXV.——How there was great strife and debate raised betwixt the cake-bakers of Lerne,and those of Gargantua's country,whereupon were waged great wars.

CHAPTER 1.XXVI.——How the inhabitants of Lerne, by the commandment of Picrochole their king,assaulted the shepherds of Gargantua unexpectedly and on a sudden.

CHAPTER 1.XXVII.——How a monk of Seville saved the close of the abbey from being ransacked by the enemy.

CHAPTER 1.XXVIII.——How Picrochole stormed and took by assault the rock Clermond, and of Grangousier's unwillingness and aversion from the undertaking of war.

CHAPTER 1.XXIX.——The tenour of the letter which Grangousier wrote to his son Gargantua.

CHAPTER 1.XXX.——How Ulric Gallet was

CHAPTER 1.XXXI.——Theseechmadeb y pGall i Pholettocroce.

CHAPTER 1.XXXII.——How Grangousier, to buy peace,caused the cakes to be restored.

CHAPTER 1.XXXIII.——How some statesmen of Picrochole,by hairbrained counsel, i i hdputxtrememneanger.

CHAPTER 1.XXXIV.——How Gargantua left the city of Paris to succour his country, and how Gymnast encountered with the enemy.

CHAPTER 1.XXXV.——How Gymnast very souply and cunningly killed Captain Tripet and others of Picrochole's men.

CHAPTER 1.XXXVI.——How Gargantua demolished the castle at the ford of Vede, and how they passed the ford.

CHAPTER 1.XXXVII.——HowGarantua,incombin g ghis h eaddehtet,magrea ll ot o i hir. ffballhcannon-sasau

CHAPTER 1.XXXVIII.——How Gargantua did eat up six pilgrims in a salad.

CHAPTER 1.XXXIX.——How the Monk was feasted by Gargantua, and of the jovial discourse they had at supper.

CHAPTER 1.XL.——Why monks are the outcasts of the world; and wherefore some have bigger noses than others.

CHAPTER 1.XLI.——How the Monk made Gargantua s leep, and of his hours and breviaries.

CHAPTER 1.XLII.——How the Monk encouraged his fellow-champions, and how he hanged upon a tree.

CHAPTER 1.XLIII.——How the scouts and fore-party of Picrochole were met with by Gargantua,and how the Monk slew Captain Drawforth (Tirevant.), and then was taken prisoner by his enemies.

CHAPTER 1.XLIV.——How the Monk rid himself of his keepers, and how Picrochole's forlorn hope was defeated.

CHAPTER 1.XLV.——How the Monk carried along with him the Pilgrims, and of the good words that Grangousier gave them.

CHAPTER 1.XLVI.——How Grangousier did very kindly entertain Touchfaucet his prisoner.

CHAPTER 1.XLVII.——aHnodw h oGwr aTnoguocuhsfiaeur cseetn stl efowr Rhiass lhecgaiolfn,s,and was afterwards executed by the command of Picrochole.

CHAPTER 1.XLVIII.——How Gargantua set upon Picrochole within the rock Clermond, and utterly defeated the army of the said Picrochole.

CHAPTER 1.XLIX.——How Picrochole in his flight fell into great misfortunes, and what Gargantua did after the battle.

CHAPTER 1.L.——Gargantua's speech to the vanquished.

CHAPTER 1.LI.——How the victorious Gargantuists were recompensed after the battle.

CHAPTER 1.LII.——How Gargantua caused to be built for the Monk the Abbey of Theleme.

CHAPTER 1.LIII.——How the abbey of the Thelemites was built and endowed.

CHAPTER 1.LIV.——The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.

CHAPTER 1.LV.——What manner of dwelling the Thelemites had.

CHAPTER 1.LVI.——How the men and women of the religious order of Theleme were apparelled.

CHAPTER 1.LVII.——How the Thelemites were governed,and of their manner of living.

CHAPTER 1.LVIII.——A prophetical Riddle.

BOOK II

FOR THE READER

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 ii fdPtcononsoanurge.

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, i dEhldstemon,teentttenantsanpemenga xa nhquunisdhr fPldandantagrueoev,id sed nd fdeitscomaithreescore horsemen very cunningly.

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CHAPTER 2.XXVII.——How Pantagruel set up one trophin yi i flhldPtmemoraoeraour,ananurgevanother i f t branchhnrememeoeares.bHeogwat Pliatntltea mgreune,l alinkde wwiisteh whiitsh f hisisg sf alirtttsl e dhPbk women;anowanureroega ff r two . lttagreasovegasses

CHAPTER 2.XXVIII.——How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants.

CHAPTER 2.XXIX.——How Pantagruel discomfited the i i hhdddhtantstreeunregarmew, and L hei in. free-stotaptaneoupgarourc

CHAPTER 2.XXX.——How Epistemon, who had his head cut off, was finely healed by Panurge, and of the news which he brought from the devils, and of the damned people in hell.

CHAPTER 2.XXXI.——How Pantagruel entered into the i fAhdhtytmaurots,coeanow id Ki o APanhuturgemarrengnarcs i ag, an dllhdantern-carranongy i i f dhmaemacrerogreensauce.

CHAPTER 2.XXXII.——How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth.

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.

BOOK III

FRANCOIS RABELAIS TO THE SOUL OF THE DECEASED QUEEN OF NAVARRE

THE AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 3.I.——How Pantagruel transported a colony of Utopians into Dipsody.

CHAPTER 3.II.——How Panurge was made Laird of Salmigondin in Dipsody, and did waste his revenue before it came in.

CHAPTER 3.III.——How Panurge praiseth the debtors and borrowers.

CHAPTER 3.IV.——Panurge continueth his discourse in the praise of borrowers and lenders.

CHAPTER 3.V.——How Pantagruel altogether abhorreth the debtors and borrowers.

CHAPTER 3.VI.——Why new married men were privileged from going to the wars.

CHAPTER 3.VII.——How Panurge had a flea in his ear,and forbore to wear any longer his magnificent codpiece

CHAPTER 3.VIII.——Why the codpiece is held to be the chief piece of armour amongst warriors.

CHAPTER 3.IX.——How Panurge asketh counsel of Pantagruel whether he should marry, yea, or no.

CHAPTER 3.X.——How Pantagruel representeth unto Panurge the difficulty of giving advice in the matter of marriage; and to that purpose mentioneth somewhat of the Homeric and Virgilian lotteries.

CHAPTER 3.XI.——How Pantagruel showeth the trial of one's fortune by the throwing of dice to be unlawful.

CHAPTER 3.XII.——How Pantagruel doth explore by the Virgilian lottery what fortune Panurge shall have in his marriage.

CHAPTER 3.XIII.——How Pantagruel adviseth Panurge to try the future good or bad luck of his marriage by dreams.

CHAPTER 3.XIV.——Panurge's dream, with the interpretation thereof.

CHAPTER 3.XV.——Panurge's excuse and exposition of the monastic mystery concerning powdered beef.

CHAPTER 3.XVI.——How Pantagruel adviseth Panurge to consult with the Sibyl of Panzoust.

CHAPTER 3.XVII.——How Panurge spoke to the Sibyl of Panzoust.

CHAPTER 3.XVIII.——How Pantagruel and Panurge did diversely expound the verses of the Sibyl of Panzoust.

CHAPTER 3.XIX.——How Pantagruel praiseth the counsel of dumb men.

CHAPTER 3.XX.——How Goatsnose by signs maketh answer to Panurge.

CHAPTER 3.XXI.——How Panurge consulteth with an old French poet, named Raminagrobis.

CHAPTER 3.XXII.——How Panurge patrocinates and defendeth the Order of the Begging Friars.

CHAPTER 3.XXIII.——How Panurge maketh the motion of a return to Raminagrobis.

CHAPTER 3.XXIV.——How Panurge consulteth with Epistemon.

CHAPTER 3.XXV.——How Panurge consulteth with Herr Trippa.

CHAPTER 3.XXVI.——How Panurge consulteth with Friar John of the Funnels.

CHAPTER 3.XXVII.——How Friar John merrily and sportingly counselleth Panurge.

CHAPTER 3.XXVIII.——How Friar John comforteth Panurge in the doubtful matter of cuckoldry.

CHAPTER 3.XXIX.——How Pantagruel convocated together a theologian, physician, lawyer, and philosopher, for extricating Panurge out of the perplexity wherein he was.

CHAPTER 3.XXX.——How the theologue, Hippothadee,giveth counsel to Panurge in the matter and business of his nuptial enterprise.

CHAPTER 3.XXXI.——How the physician Rondibilis counselleth Panurge.

CHAPTER 3.XXXII.——How Rondibilis declareth cuckoldry to be naturally one of the appendances of marriage.

CHAPTER 3.XXXIII.——Rondibilis the physician's cure of cuckoldry.

CHAPTER 3.XXXIV.——How women ordinarily have the greatest longing after things prohibited.

CHAPTER 3.XXXV.——How the philosopher Trouillogan handleth the difficulty of marriage

CHAPTER 3.XXXVI.——A continuation of the answer of the Ephectic and Pyrrhonian philosopher Trouillogan.

CHAPTER 3.XXXVII.——How Pantagruel persuaded Panurge to take counsel of a fool.

CHAPTER 3.XXXVIII.——How Triboulet is set forth and blazed by Pantagruel and Panurge.

CHAPTER 3.XXXIX.——How Pantagruel was present at the trial of Judge Bridlegoose, who decided causes and controversies in law by the chance and fortune of the dice.

CHAPTER 3.XL.——How Bridlegoose giveth reasons why he looked upon those law-actions which he decided by the chance of the dice.

CHAPTER 3.XLI.——How Bridlegoose relateth the history of the reconcilers of parties at variance in matters of law.

CHAPTER 3.XLII.——How suits at law are bred at first,and how they come afterwards to their perfect growth.

CHAPTER 3.XLIII.——How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice.

CHAPTER 3.XLIV.——How Pantagruel relateth a strange history of the perplexity of human judgment.

CHAPTER 3.XLV.——How Panurge taketh advice of Triboulet.

CHAPTER 3.XLVI.——How Pantagruel and Panurge diversely interpret the words of Triboulet.

CHAPTER 3.XLVII.——How Pantagruel and Panurge resolved to make a visit to the oracle of the holy bottle.

CHAPTER 3.XLVIII.——How Gargantua showeth that the children ought not to marry without the special knowledge and advice of their fathers and mothers.

CHAPTER 3.XLIX.——How Pantagruel did put himself in a readiness to go to sea; and of the herb named Pantagruelion.

CHAPTER 3.L.——How the famous Pantagruelion ought to be prepared and wrought.

CHAPTER 3.LI.——Why it is called Pantagruelion,and of the admirable virtues thereof.

CHAPTER 3.LII.——How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that the fir is not able to consume it.