just now given me a severe kick on the back.” _Agostini Istoria degli Scrit. Viniz. tom. ii. p. 53_—_Poggii Opera, p. 444, 464._ [405] _Poggii Opera, p. 491._ [406] _Recanati Vita Poggii, p. xxiii._ [407] _Vallæ Antidotus in Poggium, p. 227, 228, et seq._ [408] _Fabliaux ou Contes du xii. et du xiii. Siecle, Fables et Romans du xiii. traduits ou extraits d’aprés plusieurs manuscrits du tems; avec des notes historiques et critiques, et les imitations qui out été faites de ces contes depuis leur origine jusqu’à nos jours. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée d’une dissertation sur les Troubadours. Par M. le Grand. En cinq tom. in 18mo. à Paris, 1781._ For the following enumeration of the _Facetiæ_ of Poggio, which appear to correspond with some of the _Fabliaux_, I am indebted to the friendly diligence of the late Rev. John Greswell, for many years master of the college school at Manchester. The first occurs in _tom. i. p. 299_ of the _Fabliaux_, entitled _La Culotte des Cordeliers_, and is, with some variations in the commencement, the _Braccæ Divi Francisci_ of Poggio, _p. 236_ of the small edition of 1798. In _vol. iii. p. 107_, _Le Testament de l’Ane_, is in Poggio’s _Facet._ _p. 45, Canis Testamentum_. Same vol. _p. 197_, _Du Villain et de sa femme_, is in Poggio, _p. 69_, the _Mulier Demersa_, whose body is to be sought for as floating against the current, _vol. iii. p. 201_. _Du pré tondu, alias De la femme contrariante_, is the _Pertinacia Muliebris_ in the _Facetiæ_, _p. 68_. Again, _vol. iii. p. 292_, _Le Meunier d’Aleus_, is in Poggio the story entitled _Quinque Ova_, _p. 278_ of the _Facetiæ_. _Vol. iv. p. 192_, _Le Villain de Baïlleul, alias La femme qui fit croire à son Mari qu’il étoit mort_, is mentioned as imitated by Poggio, but resembles his _Mortuus loquens_, _p. 275_, only at the close. In Poggio, the young man persuaded that he was dead, hearing himself abused during the procession of his corpse to burial, _erecto capite, si vivus essem, sicut sum mortuus, inquit, dicerem, furcifer, te per gulam mentiri_. In _le Villain de Baïlleul_, the husband persuaded by his wife that he is dead, Le Curé lui-méme entre pour chanter ses _oremus_ aprés quoi il emmene la veuve dan la chambre. Pendant tout ce tems le Villain convaincu qu’il était mort, restait toujours sous le drap, sans remuer non plus qu’un cadavre. Mais entendant un certain bruit dans la chambre, et soulevant son linceul pour regarder: coquin de Pretre s’ecrie-t-il, tu dois bien remercier Dieu de ce que je suis mort, car sans cela, mordie, tu perirais ici sous le baton. _Vol. iii. p. 287_, _De la Bourgeoise d’Orléans, alias De la dame qui fit battre son Mari_, is said to be imitated in Poggio’s _Fraus Muliebris_, _p. 20_, but with much variation. _Vol. iv. p. 304_, _De l’Anneau ... (Par Haisiau)_. All the account of this is as follows: Quoique le grave President Fauchet ait donné l’extrait de ce _Fabliau_, je n’en parlerais