For the story in Le Roman du Renard Contrefait, see Poètes de Champagne, Reims, 1851, p. 156. For further information, see Caxton's Fables of Æsop, ed. Jacobs, lib. v. fab. 10; vol. i. 254, 255; vol. ii. 157, 179. La Fontaine has a similar fable of the Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse. In Croxall's Æsop, it is told of the Horse, who tells the Lion, who is acting as physician, that he has a thorn in his foot. See further references in the Exempla of Jacques de Vitry, ed. Crane, pp. 147, 197. 4061. _levesel_, an arbour or shelter formed of branches or foliage. _Lev-e_ is the stem of _leef_, A. S. _l[=e]af_, a leaf; and _-sel_ is the same as the A. S. _sæl_, _sele_, a hall, dwelling, Swed. _sal_, Icel. _salr_, G. _Saal_. The A. S. _sæl_ occurs also in composition, as _burg-sæl_, _folc-sæl_, _horn-sæl_, and _sele_ is still commoner; Grein gives twenty-three compounds with the latter, as _gæst-sele_, guest-hall, _hr[=o]f-sele_, roofed-hall, &c. In Icel. we have _lauf-hús_, leaf-house, but we find the very word we require in Swed. _löfsal_, 'a hut built of green boughs,' Widegren; Dan. _lövsals-fest_, feast of tabernacles. The word occurs again in the Persones Tale, l. 411, where it means a leafy arbour such as may still be seen to form the porch of a public-house. The word is scarce; but see the following:-- 'Alle but Syr Gauan, graythest of alle, Was left with Dame Graynour, _vndur the greues_ [groves] _grene_. By a lauryel ho [she] lay, vndur a _lefe-sale_ Of box and of barberè, byggyt ful bene.' Anturs of Arthur, st. 6; in Three Met. Romances, ed. Robson, p. 3. The editor prints it as _lefe sale_, and explains it by 'leafy hall,' but it is a compound word; the adjective would be _lefy_ or _leuy_. In this case the arbour was 'built' of box and barberry. 'All his devocioun and holynesse At the taverne is, as for the most dele, To Bacus syne, and to the _leef-sele_ His youthe hym haleth,' &c. Hoccleve, De Regim. Principum, p. 22. Again, in Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, iii. 448, the arbour formed by Jonah's gourd is called a _lefsel_. 4066. Lydgate has 'through thinne and thikke'; Siege of Troy, fol. Cc. 6, back. 4078. _geen_, goon; so in MS. E., which again has _neen_, none, 4185. The usual Northern form is _gan_ (= _gaan_), as in Hl.; Hn. Ln. have _gane_. But we also find _gayn_, as in Wallace, iv. 102; Bruce, ii. 80. [124] The forms _geen_, _neen_, are so remarkable that they are likely to be the original ones. 4086. 'I am very swift of foot, God knows, (even) as is a roe; by God's heart, he shall not escape us both; why hadst thou not put the horse in the barn?' 'Light as a rae' [roe]; Tournament of Tottenham, st. 15.