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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    loDgam, et manu teneat eum nobis. Alii admirati quaerebant quare hoc diceret: qui ait, Vide quod primus fuit malus, secundus pejor^ iste pessimus ; timeo quod cum mortuus fuerit alius pejor succedii qui penitus nos fame perimet. Unde solet dici, Seilde corned se heiered' [Seldom comes a better.] Note II. Tale LXI. Yol. L p. 213. The latter part of this apologue is in Alpbonsus, ‘ Be Clericali Bisciplina. It is the last of the Latin copy ; but not noticed in Mr. Douce’s ana- lysis, as occurring in the Gtesta. Note III. Tale II. Yol. II. page 26. “ Of judgment against adulterers^ “ The Stoeke wreker of advouterie,” [adultery.] Chaucee. The Assemhiie of Fowles, fol. 235. “ This bird,” says Speght, (Gloss, in v.) “breed- etli in the chimney-tops of houses, and as it is writ- ten of him, if the man or the wife commit adultery, he presently forsaketh the place. And as Aristotle