Volume 2

Gesta Romanorum, or, entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit / translated by Charles Swan.

Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gesta Romanorum, or, entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit / translated by Charles Swan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GESTA ROMANORUM. I TALE I. OF THE WONDERFUL DISPENSATIONS OF I PROVIDENCE, AND OF THE RISE OF POPE GREGORY. The emperor Marcus had an only son and daughter, to whom he was extremely at- tached. When he was much advanced in years, he was seized with a grievous sickness ; and seeing his end approach, summoned into his presence the chief nobles of his empire. My friends, said he, know that this day my spirit will return to the God who gave it. All my concern resides in an only daughter, VOL. II. B