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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    saith, if his female play false, he will, if he can, kill her: or else utterly forsake her. Therefore Chaucer calleth him the wreker of adultery.” Note lY.T Tale XI. Yol. II. p. 45. There is in the Latin Esop, a story of a “ Father and his three Children^'' of which the latter part re- sembles the present tale.. “ And the mill, how was it demised by your father, to be parted among you three ? They an- swered the judge, he that shall be the most lyar, most evil, and most slow, ought to have it. Then said the eldest son, I am most slothful, for many years past I have dwelled in a great house, and lav under the conduits of the same, where fell upon me aU the foul waters, as dish-water and other filth, that most wonderfully stank, insomuch that all my flesh was rotten therewith, and mine eyes blind, and the durt under my back was a foot high, and yet by sloth I had rather abide there than rise up. The second said [I] suppose, that the mill shall be mine, for if I came to a table covered with all manner of delicate meats, whereof I might eat if I would take of the best, I am so slothful that I may not eat