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and began hys Pater Noster, and he had not sayd the halfe when he remembered yf he sholde haue ye sadle withall, and therwith he returned to Saynt Bernarde, and sayd that he had thought in prayenge. And after yt he had no more wyll to anaunt[1] hym."


Note 100.Page 347.

"This is the story of Boccace's popular novel of Tito and Gisippo, and of Lydgate's Tale of two Marchants of Egypt and of Baldad, a manuscript poem in the British Museum, and lately in the library of Dr. Askew[2]. Peter Alphonsus is quoted for this story; and it makes the second fable of his Clericalis Disciplina."—Warton.


Note 101.Page 370.

"The reader perceives this is the story of Guido or Guy, Earl of Warwick; and probably this is the early outline of the life and death of that renowned champion[3].

  1. Boast.
  2. R. Edwards has a play on this story.
  3. Mr. Ellis (Specimens, Vol. II. p. 5.) supposes this a mistake; the original romance being written in French as early