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Peter Anthony Motteux. The Fifth Book
The Fifth Book
Table of Contents
The Author's Prologue
How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard
How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds
How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island
How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers
Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island
How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island
How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass
How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk
How we arrived at the island of Tools
How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping
How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats
How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us
How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle
How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption
How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats
How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures and monsters there
How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed
How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte)
How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy
How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
How the Queen passed her time after dinner
How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors
How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating
How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present
How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought
How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down
How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars
How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables
How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent
How we came to the land of Satin
How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching
How we came in sight of Lantern-land
How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land
How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle
How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world
How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear
How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves
Chapter XXXVIII - Of the temple's admirable pavement
Of the temple's admirable pavement
How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work
How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work
How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp
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
How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle
How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle
How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle
How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury
How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle
