Category: Historical Novels
The history of the _Seven Wise Masters_ forms an important epoch in the history of European popular stories, because it affords the most remarkable evidence of the literary descent and origin of stories, as distinct from a traditional descent. Professor Comparetti in his _Rese...
There was a knyght whiche hadde but one sone that he loued ryght moche in begynnynge as ye nowe all onely haue me, whome he delyuered to a mayster of ferre cou_n_trees to nourys...
3. Part 3[In the city of Rome was a Burgess which had a fair Garden, wherein he had a noble Tree, the which every year brought forth fruit of good vertue for whosoever eat thereof that w...
2. Part 2Of these fifteen stories only three are the same as those given in the _Book of Sindibad_, as published by Professor Comparetti—namely, No. 2, the example of the first Master, w...
1. Part 1The history of the _Seven Wise Masters_ forms an important epoch in the history of European popular stories, because it affords the most remarkable evidence of the literary desc...
8. Part 8There was a kyng ryght proude [et] merueylously dyfformed in his vysage in suche wyse that wȳmen hym hated [et] abhorred. This kynge thought Rome to destroye [et] the romaynes t...
7. Part 7Octauianus themperour reygned in Rome ryghte ryche [et] coueytous. [et] aboue all thynges he loued golde. The cytezyens yᵗ tyme of Rome dyde moche harme [et] many grete outrages...
4. Part 4Whan thempresse herde yᵗ the chylde was not dede she wepte bytterly [et] entred in to her preuy chamber / [et] tare her skyn wᵗ her nayles, [et] wᵗ loude voyce cryed and sayd al...
9. Part 9There was somtyme a kyng, the whiche loued his wyfe aboue all thynge. in so moche that he closed her in a stronge castell, [et] bare yᵉ keyes of the castel hymselfe. The lady wa...
6. Part 6There was an olde knyght [et] a ryght wyse ma_n_ that longe lyued without wyfe [et] chylde. His frendes came to hym many tymes [et] counseyled and exhorted him that he sholde ta...
10. Part 10There was a knyght yᵗ had a fayre yonge wyfe whome he entyrely loued in so moche that he coude not be out of her syght. It hapned on a tyme yᵗ they played togyder at the chesse,...
5. Part 5Somtyme was in the cyte of rome seuen wyse maysters by whome all yᵉ empyre was gouerned [et] ruled. And themperour that than was dyde no thynge or attempte wᵗout the counseyll o...
12. Part 12T[h]enne sayd the Emperours sone, lorde haue ye vnderstande what I haue sayd. Themperoure sayd ryght well. Tho sayd the sone, My mooste honourable [et] redoubted fader, all thou...