Note 482 — THE WOMAN WHO HUMOURED HER LOVER AT HER HUSBAND’S EXPENSE.[482]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Scott does not translate this tale, but he has written on the margin (MS. vi. 101), “A story which bears a strong resemblance to that I have read (when a boy) of the Parson’s maid giving the roasted goose to her Lover and frightening away the guests, lest he should geld them.”