Note 140 — Chapter V
Reading edition
It begins thus, stanza 1344:—
Mur de Guadalaxara · un Lunes madrugaba, Fuese à Monferrado, · à mercado andaba; Un mur de franca barba · recibiol’ en su cava, Convidol’ à yantar · e diole una faba. Estaba en mesa pobre · buen gesto è buena cara, Con la poca vianda · buena voluntad para, A los pobres manjares · el plaser los repara, l’agos del buen talante · mur de Guadalaxara.
And so on through eight more stanzas. Now, besides the Greek attributed to Æsop and the Latin of Horace, there can be found above twenty versions of this fable, among which are two in Spanish, one by Bart. Leon. de Argensola, and the other by Samaniego; but I think the Archpriest’s is the best of the whole.