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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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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    of the Latin magisteeitjm, or artijicium; inLrench maistrise, mestier^ mestrie^ and in Italian, with the same sense —Waeton. “ N’iderus,” says Heywood, (Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, p. 475), “ speaketh of one CEni- ponte, a most notorius witch, who, by making a picture of wax, and pricking it with needles in divers parts, and then burying it under the threshold of her neighbour’s house, whom she much hated, she was tormented by such grievous and insufferable prick- ings in her desh, as if so many needles had been then sticking at once in her body. But the image being found and burned, she was instantly restored to her former health and strength.” These kind of tales are innumerable, and appear to have been most implicitly believed. Note 11. Page 76. This an Eastern fiction, and is thus told in the “ Turkish Tales'^ 1 Chaucer calls his monk “ fivre for the maistre. An out-rider that loved Venerie.”—Prol. v. 165, and from many other instances which I could produce, I will only add, that the search of the Philosopher’s Stone is called in the Latin Geber Investigatio Magisterii.