Note 38.Page 207.
This story is told by Seneca of Cneius Piso. De Ira. lib. i. c. 8., and it is found in Chaucer's Sompnour's Tale, who mentions the same authority.
Note 39.Page 210.
The following apologue from the Latin Æsop, is probably from the "Gesta Romanorum," the former being collected in the early part of the fifteenth century.
Of the poor Man and the Serpent.
"He that applies himself to do other men harm, ought not to think himself secure; wherefore Æsop rehearseth this fable. There was a serpent which came into the house of a poor man, and lived of that which fell from the poor man's table, for the which thing there happened great fortune to this man, and
lereux faitz d'armes: auec rencontres, et auantures merueilleuses, de plusieurs Cheualiers, et grans seigneurs de son temps: Mis de nouueau en nostre vulgaire Francoys." Paris, 1549. But the Colophon speaks of twelve books, and we have here the first only. It is in Sion College library.
