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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    His gold out of his purse within, He found his stone also therein. * # * * * * ' ‘‘ And thus it fell him overall, Where he it sold in sundry place. Such was the fortune, and the grace.” Confessio Amantis^ Lib. 5. fol. Ill, 12. Hote 27. Page 155. “ From this beautiful tale, of which the opening only is here given, Occleve, commonly called Chau- cer’s disciple, framed a poem in the octave, which was printed in the year 1614, by William Browne, f4:. in his set of Eclogues called the Shepheard’s Pipe. Occleve has literally followed the book before us, and has even translated into English prose the Mo- EALisATion annexed. He has given no sort of em- bellishment to his original, and by no means deserves the praises which Browne, in the following elegant pastoral lyrics, has bestowed on his performance, and which more justly belong to the genuine gothic, or rather Arabian, inventor. Well I wot, the man that first Sung this lay, did quench his thirst, V 5 Cl I