260 REYNARD THE FOX
Goat.’ The Reynard occurs earliest in Petrus Alfonsi,
and was probably derived from the East.

P. 212. Foul dismal hole. In Ren. br. XIV. the wolf
eats his fill and becomes too fat:to get out again.

CHAPTER XXIII

P. 215. Challenge. ‘Trial by battle was of course the
final resource during the Middle Ages in cases like the
present, where there was a conflict of evidence.

CHAPTERS XXIV-V

P. 224. The Combat. en. br. VI., Caxton, chap.
XXXIX.

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