OR, ENTERTAINING MORAL STORIES; INVENTED BY THE MONKS AS A FIRE-SIDE RECREATION; AND COMMONLY APPLIED IN THEIR DISCOURSES FROM THE PULPIT: WHENCE THE MOST CELEBRATED OF OUR OWN POETS AND OTHERS, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, HAVE EXTRACTED THEIR PLOTS. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, WITH PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS AND COPIOUS NOTES, BY THE REV. CHARLES SWAN, LATE OF CATHARINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. "They" [the Monks]" might be disposed occasionally to recreate their PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL M.DCCC.XXIV. |