The Decameron: Its Sources and Analogues

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David Nutt, 1909 - 363 pages
 

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Page 307 - Suhaili; or, The lights of Canopus; being the Persian version of the fables of Pilpay; or, The book "Kalilah and Damnah," rendered into Persian by Husain Vaiz ul-Kashifi; literally translated into prose and verse by EB Eastwick.
Page xiv - Essai sur les Fables Indiennes et sur leur Introduction en Europe par A. Loiseleur Deslongchamps, Suivi du Roman des Sept Sages de Rome...
Page v - an attempt has been made in the following pages to give a concise, but as far as possible complete, account of the sources of the tales in Boccacio's Decameron, with notices of the various parallels and analogues.
Page 141 - Margaret was buryed in the lower chancel, And William in the higher: Out of her brest there sprang a rose, And out of his a briar. They grew till they grew unto the...
Page 8 - Let us prove, then, whose claims to it have the pre-eminence." They agreed, and several sick men were made to resort to them for the purpose. The two first rings had no effect, but the last cured all their infirmities. (5) APPLICATION. My beloved, the knight is Christ : the three sons are the Jews, Saracens, and Christians. The most valuable ring is faith, which is the property only of the younger, that is, of the Christians.
Page xvi - ANECDOTA LITERARIA; a Collection of Short Poems in English, Latin, and French, illustrative of the Literature and History of England in the Xlllth Century ; and more especially of the Condition and Manners of the different Classes of Society.
Page 182 - As smothe it was as it ware late i-schave ; I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. But of his craft, fro Berwyk unto Ware, ' Ne was ther such another pardoner. For in his male he hadde a pilwebeer, Which, that he saide, was oure lady veyl : He seide, he hadde a gobet of the seyl That seynt Petur hadde, whan that he wente Uppon the see, till Jhesu Crist him hente. 700 He hadde a cros of latoun ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones.
Page 8 - OF THE TRIPLE STATE OF THE WORLD. A CERTAIN knight had three sons, and on his death-bed he bequeathed the inheritance to his first-born ; to the second, a treasure; and to the third, a very valuable ring, of more worth indeed than all he had left to the others. But the two former had also rings ; and they were all apparently the same. After their father's death the first son said, " I possess that precious ring of my father.
Page 339 - The Poetical Decameron, or ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
Page 48 - Westward for Smelts, or the Waterman's Fare of mad merry western Wenches, whose Tongues albeit like Bell-clappers they never leave ringing, yet their Tales are sweet, and will much content you: Written by Kitt of Kingstone.

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