Copyright, 1918, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved including that of translation
into foreign languages.
Printed in the United States of America
To
MY FATHER
HENRY PHELPS LAMPREY
CONTENTS
| I | PAGE |
| The Old Road | [1] |
| The Boy with the Woolpack | [3] |
| How Robert Edrupt journeyed with the wool-merchantsto London | |
| II | |
| The Biographer | [13] |
| Basil the Scribe | [15] |
| How an Irish monk in an English Abbey came to standbefore Kings | |
| III | |
| Venetian Glass | [27] |
| The Picture in the Window | [29] |
| How Alan of the Abbey Farms learned to make stainedglass | |
| IV | |
| Troubadour’s Song | [41] |
| The Grasshoppers’ Library | [43] |
| How Ranulph le Provençal ceased to be a minstrel andbecame a troubadour | |
| V | |
| The Wood-Carver’s Vision | [55] |
| The Box that Quentin Carved | [57] |
| How Quentin of Peronne learned his trade when a boy inAmiens | |
| VI | |
| The Caged Bouverel | [69] |
| At the Sign of the Gold Finch | [71] |
| How Guy, the goldsmith’s apprentice, won the desire of hisheart | |
| VII | |
| Up Anchor | [79] |
| The Venture of Nicholas Gay | [81] |
| How Nicholas Gay, the merchant’s son, kept faith with astranger and served the King | |
| VIII | |
| London Bells | [93] |
| Barbara, the Little Goose-girl | [95] |
| How Barbara sold geese in the Chepe and what fortuneshe found there | |
| IX | |
| Harper’s Song | [105] |
| Richard’s Silver Penny | [107] |
| How Richard sold a web of russet and made the best of abad bargain | |
| X | |
| Perfumer’s Song | [119] |
| Mary Lavender’s Garden | [121] |
| How Mary Lavender came to be of service to an exiledQueen | |
| XI | |
| Pavement Song | [131] |
| Saint Crispin’s Day | [133] |
| How Crispin, the shoemaker’s son, made a shoe for a littledamsel, and new streets in London | |
| XII | |
| Concealed Weapons | [143] |
| The Lozenges of Giovanni | [145] |
| How a Milanese baker-boy and a Paduan physician keptpoison out of the King’s dish | |
| XIII | |
| A Song of Birds and Beasts | [157] |
| A Dyke in the Danelaw | [159] |
| How David le Saumond changed the course of an ancientnuisance | |
| XIV | |
| London Bridge | [171] |
| At Bartlemy Fair | [173] |
| How Barty Appleby went to the fair at Smithfield andcaught a miscreant | |
| XV | |
| Midsummer Day in England | [185] |
| Edwitha’s Little Bowl | [187] |
| How Edwitha found Roman pottery in the field of aSussex farm | |
| XVI | |
| Song of the Tapestry Weavers | [195] |
| Looms in Minchen Lane | [197] |
| How Cornelys Bat, the Flemish weaver, befriended a blacksheep and saved his wool | |
| XVII | |
| The Wishing Carpet | [209] |
| The Herbalist’s Brew | [211] |
| How Tomaso, the physician of Padua, found a cure for aweary soul | |
| XVIII | |
| The Marionettes | [225] |
| The Hurer’s Lodgers | [227] |
| How the poppet of Joan, the daughter of the capmaker,went to court and kept a secret | |
| XIX | |
| Armorer’s Song | [239] |
| Dickon at the Forge | [241] |
| How a Sussex smith found the world come to him in theWeald | |
| XX | |
| The Wander-Years | [253] |
| The Wings of the Dragon | [255] |
| How Padraig made Irish wit a journeyman to Florentinegenius | |
| XXI | |
| St. Eloi’s Blessing | [267] |
| Gold of Byzantium | [269] |
| How Guy of Limoges taught the art of Byzantium toWilfrid of Sussex | |
| XXII | |
| The Watchword | [279] |
| Cockatrice Eggs | [281] |
| How Tomaso the physician and Basil the scribe held thekeys of Empire |