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The well-known story, first told by Boccaccio, then by Petrarca, afterwards by Chaucer, and which has since become proverbial. Tom Warton, writing about 1770, says, “I need not mention that it is to this day represented in England, on a stage of the lowest species, and of the highest antiquity: I mean at a puppet show” (“Hist. of English Poetry,” sect. xv.). — B.
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Patient Grissel
A variant of "Patient Griselda"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Griselda
The version Pepys saw as a puppet-play 30 August 1667 was based on this text:
http://books.google.com/books?id=obr8-fbLyUIC&p...