[127] Leipzig, 1870.
[128] Rheims, 1851.
[129] This for convenience' sake is postponed to [chap. viii].
[130] Romancero Français, p. 66.
[132] 6 vols. Paris, 1872-90.
[133] For these see the texts and editorial matter of Dolopathos, ed. Brunet and De Montaiglon (Bibliothèque Elzévirienne), Paris, 1856; and of Le Roman des Sept Sages, ed. G. Paris (Soc. des Anc. Textes), Paris, 1875. The English Seven Sages (in Weber, vol. iii.) has been thought to be of the thirteenth century. The Gesta Romanorum in any of its numerous forms is probably later.
[134] "Les Deux Bordeors [bourders, jesters] Ribaux."
[135] Early English Prose Romances (2d ed., London, 1858), i. 71. The text of this is only Deloney's and sixteenth century, but much of the matter must be far earlier.
[136] Weber, iii. 177.