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[ From Poggio (Priapus vis) and also forms the subject of one of La Fontaine’s Contes.]
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[ Caron was “clerk of the chapel” to the Duke of Burgundy.]
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[ From an old fabliau; since copied by several writers, French and Italian.
The author’s name is given as Commesuram by Verard and as de Qucevrain in Mr. Wright’s edition. He is possibly identical with Louis de Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, whose name appears at the head of story 39. He also contributed Nos. 62 and 72.]
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[ Taken from an old English ballad included in Percy’s Reliques. It is curious that the author—de Fiennes—bears the same name as an English nobleman—Lord Saye and Sele.
Thebaut de Luxembourg (Monseigneur de Fiennes) after the death of his wife, Phillipine de Melun, turned monk, and lived to be Abbot of Igny and Orcamp, and finally Bishop of Mans. He died in 1477. He also wrote No. 43.]