Brewer's: Marchaundes Tale

(in Chaucer) is substantially the same as the first Latin metrical tale of Adolfus, and is not unlike a Latin prose tale given in the appendix of T. Wright's edition of Æsop's Fables. (SeeJanuary and May.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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