A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the RenaissanceJusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
English literature -- History and criticism
[270] Seven kilos, 200 gr. "Doctissimi viri fratris Johannis de Bromyard
... Summ[a] praedicantium," Nurenberg, 1485, fol. The subjects are
arranged in alphabetical order: Ebrietas, Luxuria, Maria, &c.
[271] Such is the case in several of the stories collected by Th.
Wright: "A Selection of Latin Stories from MSS, of the XIIIth and XIVth
Centuries, a contribution to the History of Fiction," London, Percy
Society, 1842, 8vo. In No. XXII., "De Muliere et Sortilega," the
incantations are in English verse; in No. XXXIV. occurs a praise of
England, "terra pacis et justitiae"; in No. XCVII. the hermit who got
drunk repents and says "anglice":
Whil that I was sobre sinne ne dede I nowht,
But in drunkeschipe I dede ye werste that mihten be thowte.
[272] That one in verse, with a mixture of English words. Ha! says the
peasant:
Ha thu mi swete bird, ego te comedam.
"Early Mysteries and other Latin poems of the XIIth and XIIIth
Centuries," ed. Th. Wright, London, 1838, 8vo, p. 97. _Cf._ G. Paris,
"Lai de l'Oiselet," Paris, 1884.
[273] These series of drawings in the margins are like tales without
words; several among the most celebrated of the fabliaux are thus
represented; among others: the Sacristan and the wife of the Knight; the
Hermit who got drunk; a story recalling the adventures of Lazarillo de
Tormes (unnoticed by the historians of Spanish fiction), &c. Some
drawings of this sort from MS. 10 E iv. in the British Museum are
reproduced in "English Wayfaring Life," pp. 21, 28, 405, &c.
[274] "Redi, misera, ad monasterium, quia ego, sub tua specie usque modo
officium tuum adimplevi." Wright's "Latin Stories," p. 95. Same story in
Barbazan and Meon, "Nouveau Recueil," vol. ii. p. 154: "De la Segretaine
qui devint fole au monde."
[275] "Latin Stories," p. 97; French text in Barbazan and Meon, vol. ii.
p. 443: "Du larron qui se commandoit a Nostre Dame toutes les fois qu'il
aloit embler."
[276] "Latin Stories," p. 114, from the version of the "Gesta
Romanorum," compiled in England: "De milite conventionem faciente cum
mercatore."
[277] "Ait miles, 'o carissima domina, mihi prae omnibus praedilecta hodie
fere vitam amsi; sed cum ad mortem judicari debuissem, intravit subito
quidam miles formosus valde, bene militem tam formosum nunquam antea
vidi, et me per prudentiam suam non tantum a morte salvavit, sed etiam
me ab omni solutione pecuniae liberavit.' Ait puella: 'Ergo ingratus
fuisti quod militem ad prandium, quia vitam tuam taliter salvavit, non
invitasti.' Ait miles: 'Subito intravit et subito exivit.' Ait puella:
'Si cum jam videres, haberes notitiam ejus?' At ille 'Etiam optime.'"
_Ibid._
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