part ii

., No. xcvi.).

Of the foregoing, says M. de Montaiglon, Margaret could only have been acquainted with the _Decameron_, the _Cent Nouvelles_, and Poggio’s _Facetio_, which had been translated into French by Tardix (see Nos. cv. and ex. of that translation).

A similar story in Latin verse is also contained in a fourteenth century MS. at Monte Cassino. See _I codici e le arti a Monte Cassino_, by D. Andrea Caravita (vol. ii. p. 289).

Since Margaret’s time stories of the same character have appeared in the following works:--

Melander’s _Jocondia_ (p. 298).

Phil. Béroalde’s _Contes Latins_ (see _Poggii Imitationes_, Noel’s éd., vol. ii. p. 245).

Guicciardini’s _Hore di Recreazione_ (p. 103).

J. Bouchet’s _Serées_ (No. 8; Roybet’s éd., vol. ii. p. 115).

Gabrielle Chapuys’ _Facétieuses Journées_ (p. 213).

La Fontaine’s _Contes_ (