[1790] Ib. IV, pp. 128-32.
[1791] Barbazon et Méon, Nouv. Rec. de Fabliaux, IV, p. 250.
[1792] Erzählungen und Schwänke, hrsg. von Hans Lambel (Leipzig, 1888), No. VIII, pp. 309-22.
[1793] Koeppel, Studien zur Geschichte der italienischen Novelle in der englischen Litteratur des XVI Jahrhunderts (1892), p. 183.
[1794] King John by William Shakespeare together with the Troublesome Reign of King John, ed. F. G. Fleay, (1878), pp. 158-62.
[1795] Printed in A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, ed. J. O. Halliwell (Percy Soc. 1840), pp. 107-17. Professor MacCracken denies the authorship to Lydgate, see The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, ed. H. N. MacCracken (E.E.T.S. 1911), I, p. xlii (note).
[1796] The edition used is that of Joseph Strange in two volumes (Cologne, Bonn and Brussels, 1851). For a study of the life and times of Caesarius, see A. Kaufmann, Caesarius von Heisterbach, Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte des zwölften und dreizehnten Jahrhunderts (Cologne, 1850). For anecdotes from this source already quoted in the text, see pp. 27-9, 296-7, 511, 520 ff., etc.
[1797] Op. cit. I, pp. 1-2.
[1798] I.e. “Ave Maria, gratia plena.” The Virgin Mary was always the most potent help against the devil, as may be seen from any collection of her miracles (e.g. that made by Gautier de Coincy in French verse in the thirteenth century and edited by the Abbé Poquet).
[1799] Ib. I, pp. 125-7. For an abbreviated version of this story, taken from Caesarius, see An Alphabet of Tales (E.E.T.S.), pp. 178-9 (No. CCLV).