Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

Note 132 — APOCRYPHAL LIFE OF ESOP, THE FABULIST.

Reading edition

This story is also found in the Liber de Donis of Etienne de Bourbon (No. 246), a Dominican monk of the 14th century; in the Summa Praedicantium of John Bromyard, and several other medieval monkish collections of exempla, or stories designed for the use of preachers: in these the explanation is that nothing can be better and nothing worse than tongue. Return

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