Gesta Romanorum : or, Entertaining moral stories; invented by the monks as a fireside
recreation, and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit : whence the
most celebrated of our own poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted
their plots / translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious
notes, by the Rev.Charles Swan, ... ; revised and corrected by Wynnard Hooper,...,
1959