that, when any one of them arrives in our island, we take him for a water-fowl and eat him, . . . . with all the several sauces with which men are wont to eat wild-fowl."—Turkish Tales, vol. ii. p. 364.
Note 120.Page 382.
Bracciolinus, or Brandiolinus Poggius, a Florentine, who flourished in the 15th century, has given an account of the monster here alluded to. I quote the translation of his fables, of 1658.
"Also, within a little while after it befell out about the marches of Italy, that there was a child born which had two heads, and two visages, beholding one another, and the arms of each other embraced the body; the which body from the navel upward was joined, save the two heads; and from the navel downward, the limbs were all separated one from another. Of the which child tidings came unto the person of Poge at Rome."
Note 121.Page 386.
There is a metrical romance on this subject; and Thomas of Elmham, a chronicler, calls the coronation feast of King Henry the Sixth, a second feast
