198 ^SOP'S FABLES 



introduced a few oriental Apologues among the latter half 

 of his Fables. Some of these, e.g. " La Perrette," have been 

 incorporated into the later iEsops. 



The present collection aims at representing in selection 

 and arrangement this history of the European ^Esop. 1 

 Three quarters of its contents give in due order those of 

 Stainhowel, which have survived in the struggle for existence 

 in the popular consciousness. As a kind of appendix the 

 last quarter of fables in this book gives a miscellaneous set 

 derived from various collections published since the Stain- 

 howel, and winning their way by force of merit into the 

 popular iEsops. For the fables derived from the Stainhowel- 

 Caxton I have referred briefly to the bibliographical appendix 

 in my edition of Caxton, pp. 225, 268, by the symbols 

 used there, as follows : — 



Ro. = Four books of Romulus, really Phaedrus. 



Ex. v. = Extravagantes. 



Re. = Greek prose fables, latinised by Remicius. 



Av. = Avian. 



Po. = Poggio. 

 I give here a short summary of the information more 

 fully contained in these bibliographical lists. I have gone 

 more into detail for the last twenty fables or so which do 

 not occur in Caxton. 



I.— COCK AND PEARL (Ro. i. 1). 



Phaedrus, iii. 12. Cannot be traced earlier or elsewhere. 

 It gave its title to Boner's German collection of fables. 

 Luther, La Fontaine, Lessing, Krilof, included it in their 

 collections. It is quoted by Rabelais, Bacon, Essays^ xiii., 

 and Mr. Stevenson, Catrlona. 



1 Dodsley's .^Esop in the 'last century was arranged on a somewhat similar 

 plan, being divided into three books of Ancient, Modern, and Original Fables. 



