The Well-to-do Beggars

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xii
4. Foreword xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. Familiar Colloquies 1
7. Patterns of Informal Conversation 5
8. Rash Vows 35
9. In Pursuit of Benefices 44
10. Military Affairs 53
11. The Master's Bidding 64
12. A Lesson in Manners 70
13. Sport 74
14. The Whole Duty of Youth 88
15. Hunting 109
16. Off to School 113
17. Additional Formulae 118
18. The Profane Feast 132
19. A Short Rule for Copiousness 164
20. The Godly Feast 171
21. The Apotheosis of That Incomparable Worthy, Johann Reuchlin 244
22. Courtship 256
23. The Girl with No Interest in Marriage 279
24. The Repentant Girl 302
25. Marriage 306
26. The Soldier and the Carthusian 328
27. Pseudocheus and Philetymus: The Liar and the Man of Honour 344
28. The Shipwreck 351
29. Inns 368
30. The Young Man and the Harlot 381
31. The Poetic Feast 390
32. An Examination concerning the Faith 419
33. The Old Men's Chat, or The Carriage 448
34. The Well-to-do Beggars 468
35. The Abbot and the Learned Lady 499
36. The Epithalamium of Pieter Gillis 520
37. Exorcism, or The Spectre 531
38. Alchemy 545
39. The Cheating Horse-Dealer 557
40. Beggar Talk 562
41. The Fabulous Feast 571
42. The New Mother 590
43. A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake 619
44. A Fish Diet 675
45. The Funeral 763
46. Echo 796
47. A Feast of Many Courses 802
48. Things and Names 809
49. Charon 818
50. A Meeting of the Philological Society 831
51. A Marriage in Name Only, or The Unequal Match 842
52. The Imposture 860
53. Cyclops, or The Gospel-Bearer 863
54. Non-Sequiturs 877
55. The Knight without a Horse, or Faked Nobility 880
56. Knucklebones, or The Game of Tali 891
57. The Council of Women 905
58. Early to Rise 916
59. The Sober Feast 925
60. The Art of Learning 931
61. The Sermon, or Merdardus 938
62. The Lover of Glory 963
63. Penny-Pinching 979
64. The Seraphic Funeral 996
65. Sympathy 1033
66. A Problem 1056
67. The Epicurean 1070
68. The Usefulness of the Colloquies 1095
69. Erasmus and Erasmius 1120
70. The Return to Basel 1122
71. Editions of the Colloquies 1137
72. Alphabetical List of the Colloquies 1139
73. Works Frequently Cited 1143
74. Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works 1151
75. Index of Biblical and Apocryphal References 1155
76. Index of Classical References 1165
77. Index of Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance References 1178
78. General Index 1188
79. Backmatter 1228