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A New Edition, Revised. 2 vols, cloth, 6s. London: J. WHITAKER, 12, Warwick Lane. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1885. CONTENTS.-N° 313. Another Arabian version is found in the Búlák and Calcutta (Macnaughton) printed texts, which Captain Burton gives as follows, in his translation NOTES:-Oriental Sources of Chaucer, 509-Birelegia-Folk--with invaluable notes-of the same fascinating Tales of the Lapps, 510-Parson and Parsonage, 511-Anti-collection of tales, five volumes of which have now quity of Book-plates-Old Engraving, 512-Nuts at FeastsAself-Jury List-Cricket-Kesteven, 513-Crest-Wreaths been issued to the subscribers. Mislested-Bloody Hand-" Beggar's Barm," 514. In a city called Sindah there was once a very QUERIES:-Exeter College-Jermyn Street-Name of Writer wealthy merchant, who made ready his camel-loads -Docket-Rev. J. Crookshanks - Weathercocks-Snap and equipped himself with goods, and set out with Apple Night"-Sign of the Swan-Sir R. 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Gainford-English Almanacs, 526-Carew Raleigh, 527. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Bullen's "Old English Plays "-Murdoch's "History of Constitutional Reform "-Heron-Allen's "Manual of Cheirosophy"-Dobson's Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield." Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. also were merchants, wended with him by the way. So, halting at the first halting-place, they agreed to play him false and take all he had; but at the same time each inwardly plotted foul play to the other, saying in his mind, "If I can cheat my comrade, times will go well with me, and I shall have all these goods to myself." So after planning this perfidy, one of them took food, and putting therein poison, brought it to his fellow; the other did the same, and they both ate of the poisoned mess and they both died. Now they had been sitting with the merchant; so when they left him and were long absent from him he sought for tidings of them, and found the twain lying dead, whereby he knew that they were sharpers who had plotted to play him foul, but their foul play had ORIENTAL SOURCES OF SOME OF CHAUCER'S recoiled upon themselves. So the merchant was TALES. I. THE PARDONER'S TALE. For the sake of comparison it may be as well to cite the Arabian version, as found in the Breslau printed text of the Thousand and One Nights, especially as it exists in English only in Mr. John Payne's supplementary volumes to his admirable translation of the Nights, entitled Arabian Tales -a work which can be in the hands of but a few readers of "N. & Q."-where it is thus rendered:Three men once went out in quest of riches, and came upon a block of gold weighing a hundred pounds. When they saw it, they took it up on their shoulders and fared on with it till they drew near a certain city, when one of them said, "Let us sit in the mosque, whilst one of us goes and buys us what we may eat." So they sat down in the mosque, and one of them arose and entered the city. When he came therein, his soul prompted him to play his fellows false and get the gold for himself alone. So he bought food and poisoned it; but when he returned to his comrades they fell upon him and slew him, so they might enjoy the gold without him. Then they ate of the (poisoned) food and died, and the gold abode cast down over against them.* *Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and preserved, and took what they had.* The first of the above versions, it will be observed, corresponds closely with the Pardoner's Tale of Chaucer; while the second agrees with the Buddhist original in there being but two rogues; otherwise, however, it is much corrupted. From some European variant, unknown to me at present, Chaucer must have derived the story which he relates so well and with an impressive preamble. I think it very probable that it may exist in some of the monkish collections of apologues and tales with which Chaucer was doubtless well acquainted, such as the Summa Prædicantium of John Bromyard, which Prof. Crane describes as the most extensive and in many respects the most valuable of all that class of works. 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