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xcviii CHAP. LXX. Is the story of Guido, (and of Sir Guy, Ellis's Specimens, &c.) Tale XCL YoL 2. Not observed by Mr. Douce.

CHAP. LXXII. Forms the latter part of Tale XXI. Vol. 2. Not observed by Mr. Douce.

CHAP. LXXVII. Is the Twenty-eighth History of the English Translation, but not worth transcribing. The latter part of this story is the same with Tale II. and the last Tale of Vol. 2. Mr. Douce notices the latter, but it is not so similar by any means as the former.

CHAPTER LXXVIII.

"A law was made at Rome, that no man should marry for beauty, but for riches only; and that no woman should be united to a poor man, unless he should by some means acquire wealth equal to her own. A certain poor knight solicited the hand of a