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 &*s.viii.Nov.9,i90i.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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XCVI. 'pf the burnynge of olde Jqhn.'- This story is told in a converse sense in the 'Grand Parangondes NouvellesNouvelles,' par Nicholas de Troyes (eighth of the first day, p. 30 of the edition by E. Mabille in the " Biblioth. Elzev.").

XCVII. ' Of the courtear that ete the hot custarde.' Told of Khoja Nasni 'd Din Efendi (Clouston's 'Flowers from a Persian Garden,' 1894, second ed., p. 69). See note to this tale, erroneously placed by Hazlitt at the end of 'Mery Tales,' &c., p. 161. It is also the 672nd of Pauli. Oesterley refers to Waldis, ' Esopus,' hg. von H. Kurtz, 3, 90. In M. A P. for 12 October the same story is told, on the authority of Bishop Whipple, of two Indian chiefs dining at an hotel in Washington, who, seeing an Englishman eat cayenne pepper, did so too ; and on its bringing tears into their eyes one (to show his stoicism) said, " I was thinking of my dead grandmother." The other said, "I wept because you didn't die when your grandmother died." If this story is not a mere rechauffe of our tale, it is a curious instance of the diffusion of a story amongst such widely different races as the Turks and American Indians.

G. ' Of the man that paynted the lamb,' &c. This tale is in ' Le Moyen de Parvenir,' par Beroalde de Verville, chap. Ixxiv. A note at p. 266 of the edition published by Gamier Freres (no date) says it is drawn from the ' Formulaire Recreatif de tous Contrats, Donations, &c., de Bredin le Cocu,' a strange and rare little work attributed to Benoist du Troncy. It is in Bouchet, 'Les Serees,' troisieme livre, dix-huitieme seree, vol. iv. p. 218 of the edition by Roybet, 1875; 'Contes a rire,' p. 87 ; Ouville^ vol. ii. p. 269 ; La Fontaine's 'Le Bat.' The story also forms part of the old German poem of Buch iii. No Iviii. It is also in 'Erzah- lungen aus altdeutscheri Hds. gesammelt durch A. von Keller,' Stuttgart, Litter. Verein, 1855, the story being called 'Hie beginnet der Maler von Wirtzeburge.' A note says that it is also to be found in P. Fortini, printed in 1812, 4to, twelve copies only, under the title of ' Lo Agnellino Dipinto.'
 * Das Radlein,' Hagen, ' Gesammtabenteuer,'

' Tales and Quicke Answeres. ' I. 'Of hym that rode out of London & had his seruaunt folowynge on foote.' Is in 'Apologie pour Herodote,' vol. i. p. 63. A note ^there refers to ' Face'tieux Reveil-matin des Espiits Melancoliques,' Leyde, Lopez de Haro, 1643, in 12mo, p. 106 ; ' Menagiana,' La Monnoye, Paris, Delaulne, 1715, 4 vols. in

12mo, ii. 282. It is Poggio's No. 162 of the edition of 1867, Paris, Lemerre.

II. ' Of hym that preched on Saynt Chrys- tophers day.' This is a literal translation of Poggio, No. cc. of the edition previously cited.

III. 'Of the frenche man, that stroue with the janway for his armes.' This is also a mere translation of Poggio's ccii. It is No. 168 of Pauli. Oesterley refers to Bartholus de Saxoferrato, 'Tractat. de Insigniis et Armis,' Altorf, 1727, 6 ; Hem merlin, 'De Nobilitate,' 29, fol. 108; 'Scherz mit der Wahrheit,' Frankfurt, 1563, fol. 72b.

IIII. ' Of the curate that saide our Lorde fedde 5,000 persons.' Poggio's ccxxvii.

V. ' Of hym that profered his doughter in mariage.' Poggio's cliv.

VI. * Of them that came to London to bye a Crucifixe.' Poggio, No. xii. ; part of the twentieth tale of ' Grand Parangon,' &c., p. 87 of the edition cited ; ' Contes a rire,' p. 90 ; Pauli, No. 409. Oesterley refers to'Nouveaux Contes a rire et Aventures Plaisantes,' Cologne, 1702, p. 35 ; Geiler, ' Narrenschiff,' Strassb, 1521, fol. 80 Schar, 2 Schel, fol. 153; 'Hans Sachs,' i. 351; Jac. Frey, ' Die Gartengesellschaft, das ander theil desz Rollwagens,' Franckf., 1575, 8vo, fol. 3b ; Sam. Gerlach, 'Eutrapeliarum Libri Tres,' Leipzig, 1656, 8vo, i. 670; Jasander, 'Der Teutsch Historienschreiber,' Frankf. u. Leipzig, 1730, 8vo, 95; Lessing, 'Das Crucifix,' Leipzig, 1853, i. 139 ; l Uylen-Spiegel, Den Roomschen,' Amsterd., 1671, 8vo, 433. It is also the seventieth of the 'Novelise' of Morlino (" Bibliotheque Elzevir.," 1855).

VIII. ' Of hym that felle into the fyre.'- This is copied almost verbatim into ' Pasquil's Jests,' &c., ed. Hazlitt, 'Shakespeare Jest- Books,' third series, p. 57.

XL ' Of him that kissed the mayd with the longe nose.' This is also in ' Pasquil's Jests,' p. 41 ; and in Domenichi, p. 64.

XVI. 'Of the marchaunt that lost his Dodgette betwene Ware and London.' This story has its origin in the ' Disciplina Jlericalis' of Petrus Alphonsus, where it torms the eighteenth chapter of the edition by Schmidt, 1827, and the fifteenth of the edition of Labouderie in 1824. Thence it passed into the old French translation of that work called 'Le Castoiement, ou Instruction d'un Pere a son Fils,' an abstract of which is n Barbazan Meon, 'Fabliaux et Contes,' &c., 1808, ii. p. 120; G. B. Giraldi in the ninth of Dhe first day of his 'Ecatommiti ' ; Doni in lis ' Marmi,' part i. Rag. vi. (ed. Fanfani, i.
 * iven in Legrand, iii. 66, and which is printed