Chapter V: Book IV

_Chap. i._: How and for what reason the huntsman was jockeyed away into France

_Chap. ii._: How Simplicissimus found a better host than before

_Chap. iii._: How he became a stage player and got himself a new name

_Chap. iv._: How Simplicissimus departed secretly and how he believed he had the Neapolitan disease

_Chap. v._: How Simplicissimus pondered on his past life, and how with the water up to his mouth he learned to swim

_Chap. vi._: How he became a vagabond quack and a cheat

_Chap. vii._: How the doctor was fitted with a musquet under Captain Curmudgeon

_Chap. viii._: How Simplicissimus endured a cheerless bath in the Rhine

_Chap. ix._: Wherefore clergymen should never eat hares that have been taken in a snare

_Chap. x._: How Simplicissimus was all unexpectedly quit of his musquet

_Chap. xi._: Discourses of the Order of the Marauder Brothers

_Chap. xii._: Of a desperate fight for life in which each party doth yet escape death

_Chap. xiii._: How Oliver conceived that he could excuse his brigand's tricks

_Chap. xiv._: How Oliver explained Herzbruder's prophecy to his own profit, and so came to love his worst enemy

_Chap. xv._: How Simplicissimus thought more piously when he went a-plundering than did Oliver when he went to church

_Chap. xvi._: Of Oliver's descent, and how he behaved in his youth, and specially at school

_Chap. xvii._: How he studied at Liège, and how he there demeaned himself

_Chap. xviii._: Of the homecoming and departure of this worshipful student, and how he sought to obtain advancement in the wars

_Chap. xix._: How Simplicissimus fulfilled Herzbruder's prophecy to Oliver before yet either knew the other

_Chap. xx._: How it doth fare with a man on whom evil fortune doth rain cats and dogs

_Chap. xxi._: A brief example of that trade which Oliver followed, wherein he was a master and Simplicissimus should be a prentice

_Chap. xxii._: How Oliver bit the dust and took six good men with him

_Chap. xxiii._: How Simplicissimus became a rich man and Herzbruder fell into great misery

_Chap. xxiv._: Of the manner in which Herzbruder fell into such evil plight