Excerpt from Popular Tales and Fictions, Vol. 2 of 2: Their Migrations and Transformations Wright, in his introduction to an old English metri cal text of the Seven Wise Masters, ' printed for the Percy Society, states that he had met with the story among the Latin tales of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but could not call to mind in What collec tion: it is found, he adds, a little varied in detail, in the Nouveaux Contes a rire, ' Amsterdam, 1737, under the title of J ugement subtil du Duc d'ossone contre deux Marchands. Apparently Wright was not aware that the story in this form occurs in one of the novels of Le Sage, The History of Vanillo Gonzales, ' ch. Xvi., which was published in 1734. The hero, While a page to the Duke of Ossuna, governor of Sicily, is met on the street one day by a young citizen of Palermo, who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.