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Et de roulieris Ephefina ct Grailium fide. And by the way, aboutforty verfe* beloogiug to this argument are tranflated from the famechapter of the Polycraticon, in the Wife of Bath’s prologue. lath*mean time it is not improbable that this tale might have originallybeen Oriental. A Pcrfiao tale is juft publifhed which it extremelyyefcmblcs; and it has much of the allegory of an Eaftern apologue.'*The author adds, that the Miller's Tale , in Chaucer , excels ailJus other tales in true and exquifite humour.

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