XF 733 WEB

Metrical Romances

OF THE

THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, AND FIFTEENTH

CENTURIES:

PUBLISHED FROM

Ancient Manuscripts.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND A GLOSSARY.

BY

HENRY WEBER, ESQ.

VOLUME III.

Of all maner of minstrales

And jestours that tellen tales

Both of weeping and of game

And of all that longeth unto fame.

CHAUCER.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by George Ramsay and Company,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH; AND
JOHN MURRAY, AND CONSTABLE, HUNTER, PARK,
AND HUNTER, LONDON.

1810.

Tale I. The Pinnote-Tree and its Ympe, .

II. The Knight and his Grehonde,

III. The Bore and the Herd,

IV. Ypocras and his Neveu,

V. The Father murdered by his Son,

VI. The Husband shut out,.

VII. The Kinge and his Stiward,

VIII. The old Wise Man and his Wife,.

IX. Cressus, the Riche Man,

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XI. Herowdes and Merlin,

XII. The Scheriffe, his Widow, and the

THE

PROCES

OF

THE SEUYN SAGES.

VOL. III.