PROVERBS. 



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alphabetical order by J. do la Veprie, prior of Clairvaux. Tbo name of the 

 compiler is u guarantee iat the decency of these proverbs, and this perhaps 

 was one of the causes of the success of this little collection, of which several 

 Gothic editions appeared at the close of the fifteenth century. 



Fig. 279. A Court Jester. Miniature from a French Bible. Manuscript of the Fifteenth 

 Century. In the Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



The "Dit de 1'Apostoile," which must be mentioned, though it is in 

 reality a collection of popular sayings rather than of proverbs, is of much less 

 ancient date, belonging as it probably does to the thirteenth century. The 



