[Source.—Boccaccio, Dec. ii. 2.
Origin.—Pantschatantra (Fables of Bidpai), II. iv. tr. Benfey, 183.
Parallels.—Mediæval: von der Hagen, Gesammtabenteuer, No. 42; Mod.: Lope de Vega, Llegar en ocasion: Lafontaine, L’oraison de St. Julien; La Moth, Le Talisman.
Painter.—I. i. 64; II. i. 60; III. i. 111; IV. i. 125.
Derivatives.—The Widow, attributed to Ben Jonson, Fletcher and Middleton, seems to have been derived from this.]
[ XXXIV. The King of England’s Daughter.]
Three yonge men hauing fondlye consumed all that they had, became verie poore, whose nephewe (as he retourned out of Englande into Italie,) by the waye fell into acquaintaunce with an abbote, whome (vpon further familiaritie) he knewe to be the king of Englande’s doughter, whiche toke him to husbande. Afterwardes she restored his vncles to all their losses, and sent them home in good state and reputation.
[Source and Origin.[66]—Boccaccio, Dec., giorn. ii., nov. 3.
Painter.—I. i. 68; II. i. 63; III. i. 116; IV. i. 130.]