NOTES 257

P. 140. Zhe greatest clerks. Cf. Chaucer, Zhe Reve’s
Tale, A. 4054.

The greteste clerkes been noght the wysest men,
As whylom to the wolf thus spak the mare.

And Prof. Skeat’s note thereto, who fails, however, to
observe that. the quotation in this connection proves that
Chaucer had before him some form of Zhe Reynard. We
may have here another trace of the Middle English
Reynard, of which the only other fragment that remains is
that Of the Vox and of the Wolf.

P. 141. He that will tive. Here begins Reynard’s
Apologia pro Domo, the moral of the tone of the book,
which is, in its way, a parody on the clerical morals
attached to stories like those of the Gesta Romanoruin.

CHAPTER XIX

P. 146. Reynard’s Second Defence. Caxton, chap.
XXVIL., XXix.

P. 150. Martin. ein. Kunin. Not in Ren., therefore
of very late addition.

P. 155. Cardinal Paregold. A late and Protestant
touch.

CHAPTER XX

P. 160. Rukenaw’s Defence. Caxton, chap. xxix.,
Rukenaw. Not in ezz. or Ren.

P. 163. A man and a serpent. This well-known
story is also widely spread among folk-tales. Prof. Krohn
has given references to no less than ninety-four parallels of
it in his dissertation, AZann und Fuchs (Helsingfors, 1891),
to which I have added a few others in Ladian Fairy Tales,

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