[65]. Travelling by sea. From the MS. Harl. 1319, fol. 7 b. The subject is the return of Richard II from Ireland to England • 377
[66]. The southern entrance to St. James of Compostela, twelfth century, “Plaza de las Platerias” (silversmiths). The present cathedral, replacing an older one, destroyed by the Moors, was begun in the middle of the eleventh century, and dedicated in 1211 • 381
[67]. A sample of Pilgrims’ signs, as sold to them at Walsingham; from the original in the British Museum • 418
[68]. A blind beggar and his boy. The trick played upon the blind man by his boy is well known as being one of the incidents in the first chapter of the sixteenth-century Spanish novel, “Lazarillo de Tormes.” It has long been suspected that the materials for this chapter were drawn by the Spanish author from an earlier tale. This drawing and several others that follow it, never adverted to with reference to “Lazarillo de Tormes,” put the fact beyond a doubt; they tell in their way the same tale, and they are of the first part of the fourteenth century. MS. 10 E. IV., in the British Museum, fol. 217 b; see above No. 30 • 419
3. THE THREE-BRANCHED BRIDGE AT CROWLAND.
INTRODUCTION
“O, dist Spadassin, voici un bon resveux; mais allons nous cacher au coin de la cheminée et là passons avec les dames nostre vie et nostre temps à enfiler des perles ou à filer comme Sardanapalus. Qui ne s’adventure n’a cheval ni mule, ce dist Salomon.”