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516 and began hys Pater Noster, and he had not sayd the halfe when he remembered yf he sholde haue y$e$ sadle withall, and therwith he returned to Saynt Bernarde, and sayd that he had thought in prayenge. And after y$t$ he had no more wyll to anaunt hym."

"This is the story of Boccace's popular novel of The Decameron/Novel 10, 8, and of Lydgate's Tale of two Marchants of Egypt and of Baldad, a manuscript poem in the British Museum, and lately in the library of Dr. Askew . Peter Alphonsus is quoted for this story; and it makes the second fable of his ."—.

"The reader perceives this is the story of Guido or Guy, Earl of Warwick; and probably this is the early outline of the life and death of that renowned champion.