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ad me In qua erat involutus liber et expandit illum coram me. qui erat 
scriptus intus et foris et scripta erant in eo lamentationes et carmen 
et ve. Et dixit ad me Filii hominis quodeunque inveneris comede. 
Comede volumen istud et vadens loquere ad filios Israel. et aperui os 
meum et cibavit me volumine illo et dixit ad me Filii hominis venter 
tuus comedet et viscera tua replebuntur volumine isto quod ego do 
tibi. Et comedi illud et factum est in ore meo sicut mel dulce. 
L. II. 
Et dixit ad me. Filii hominis vade ad domum Israel et loqueris verba 
mea ad eos. Non enim ad populum profundi sermonis et ignotze 
linguee tu miteris’* ad domum Israel, neque ad populos multos profun- 
di sermonis et ignote lingue quorum non possis audire sermones et si 
ad illos metteris” ipsi audirent te. Domus autem Israel nolunt audire 
te quia nolunt audire me. 
Lecrio ITI. 
Omnis quippe domus Israel attrita fronte est et duro corde. Ecce 
dedi faciem tuam valentiorem faciebus eorum. et frontem tuam duri- 
orem 
[At the close of Mr. Wright’s preface to his collection of Latin 
stories, of which I have spoken above, he says:—‘‘ I ought, perhaps, 
to observe that I have reprinted in this collection several Latin stories 
from the Altdeutsche Blatter, which were communicated to that work 
by Mr. Thoms, from a ms. of the thirteenth century then in his posses- 
sion, but now transferred to the British Museum.” I have never seen 
the work here referred to; but I have discovered, since the present 
Paper was printed, that several of the stories which Mr. Wright has 
taken from it are almost literally the same with tales in the Speculum 
Laicorum. Thus the story ‘De uxore gulosa” at p. 35 of Mr. Wright’s 
book, that entitled ‘‘ De ebrio qui yendidit animam suam,” at p. 76, 
and that given in Mr. Wright’s Note on story xxv., p. 220, are in the 
Speculum. Two others which I have printed at length from the Specu- 
lum are among Mr. Wright’s extracts from the Altdeutsche Blatter, 
namely tales vir. and rx. in Appendix A to the present Paper. The 
latter I have given for its intrinsic interest, and also because curiously, 
whilst it appears in the Derry copy of the Speculum, it is not in the 
Dublin copy. The former I have reproduced on account of the mention 
of Dyvelin, a name which Mr. Wright had conjecturally substituted 
for Wyvelin, which he found in the <Altdeutsche Blatter ; both the 
Derry and Dublin mss. confirm his correction. It is possible that the 
other five stories which Mr. Wright has taken from the Altdeutsche 
Blitter may also be in the Speculum ; this I have not yet ascertained. 
Is the ms. from which these tales were transcribed by Mr. Thoms a 
third copy of the Speculum Laicorum, or does it only contain some 
stories from the Speculum ? This is matter for further inquiry.—J.K.1. ] 
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