Reeve's tale, imitated from the French fabliau of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Romanorum, also the fabliau "Destourmi;" then five other fabliaux from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

I know the fabliau of the 'Denier' ... and that of Gombert and dame Erme.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

The only essential difference is that the opening of the Serbian tale is the well-known fabliau of the "Meadow that was mowed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

It is related in the “Disciplina Clericalis” of Alphonsus (A.D. 1106); the fabliau of La vieille qui seduisit la jeune fille; the Gesta Romanorum (thirteenth century) and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Celtic — a mingling of the spirit of fabliau and popular fairy tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Tennyson] Reference

When, at last, Walter, playing the jongleur, begins to repeat a particularly coarse fabliau, or story in verse, Robin stops him short.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference

The writers were often clerks or laymen who had turned from the vanities of youth -- fabliau or romance -- and now aimed at edification or instruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

If the Mystery served to fill the void left by the national epopee, the farce may be regarded as to some extent the dramatic inheritor of the spirit of the fabliau.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

In the old fabliau of "Le Pré Tondu" (Le Grand d'Aussy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference

The minstrels have a fabliau of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day] Reference

The fabliau is interesting in more ways than one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

The fabliau of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Hartshorne, "Ancient Metrical Tales," London, 1829, p. 202), a fabliau, probably derived from a French original, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference