X _Perfumer's Song_ 119 MARY LAVENDER'S GARDEN 121 How Mary Lavender came to be of service to an exiled Queen XI _Pavement Song_ 131 SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY 133 How Crispin, the shoemaker's son, made a shoe for a little damsel, and new streets in London XII _Concealed Weapons_ 143 THE LOZENGES OF GIOVANNI 144 How a Milanese baker-boy and a Paduan physician kept poison out of the King's dish XIII _A Song of Birds and Beasts_ 157 A DYKE IN THE DANELAW 159 How David le Saumond changed the course of an ancient nuisance XIV _London Bridge_ 173 AT BARTLEMY FAIR 175 How Barty Appleby went to the fair at Smithfield and caught a miscreant XV _Midsummer Day in England_ 187 EDWITHA'S LITTLE BOWL 189 How Edwitha found Roman pottery in the field of a Sussex farm XVI _Song of the Tapestry Weavers_ 197 LOOMS IN MINCHEN LANE 199 How Cornelys Bat, the Flemish weaver, befriended a black sheep and saved his wool XVII _The Wishing Carpet_ 211 THE HERBALIST'S BREW 213 How Tomaso, the physician of Padua, found a cure for a weary soul XVIII _The Marionettes_ 225 THE HURER'S LODGERS 229 How the poppet of Joan, the daughter of the capmaker, went to court and kept a secret XIX _Armorer's Song_ 241 DICKON AT THE FORGE 243 How a Sussex smith found the world come to him in the Weald XX _The Wander-Years_ 255 THE WINGS OF THE DRAGON 257 How Padraig made Irish wit a journeyman to Florentine genius XXI _St. Eloi's Blessing_ 269 GOLD OF BYZANTIUM 271 How Guy of Limoges taught the art of Byzantium to Wilfrid of Sussex