[ 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. ]