Excerpt from The Palfrey: A Love Story of Old Times

The following story is a variation of one of the most amusing of the old French narrative poems that preceded the time of Chaucer, with additions of the writer's invention. The original, which he did not see till it was completed, is to be found in the collection of Messrs. Barbazan and Meon, (Fabliaux et Contes des Poetes Francois des 11, 12, 13, 14, et 15 Siecles, &c. Edition 1808.) His own originals were the prose abridgment of M. le Grand, (Fabliaux, &c., third edition, volume the fourth,) and its imitation in verse by Messrs. Way and Ellis, inserted in the notes to the select translations from Le Grand by the former of those gentlemen.

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