Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots, Volume 2

C. and J. Rivington, 1824

TALE	1

Of Sinners who receive the Divine	36

Of free Will	43

Of the Inheritance and Joy of a faith	48

Of Death	55

Of worldly Evil and Distress	62

Of doing all Things with Concord	70

Of the Remembrance of Benefits	77

Of the Souls wounds	205

Of the Snares of the Devil	211

Of the actual state of the World	217

Of the punishment of	223

Of eternal Destruction	231

232	303

Of the punishment of Offenders	310

Of the Seductions of the Devil	316

XXVII Of remembering Death and forget	87

Of the avaricious Pursuit of Riches	95

Of Vigilance in our Calling	117

Of Spiritual Contests	123

Of the Love of	130

Of Deceit	137

Of feminine Subtlety	148

Of ecclesiastical Blindness	160

Of Women who not only betray	168

Of Injustice	176

Of Wisdom which excels Strength	184

Of spiritual Friendship	190

VOL II	193

Of Vigilance in our Calling	198

Of extreme Fear	325

Of the Perversity of the World	331

Of hearing good Counsel	339

Of Repentance	346

Of mental Constancy	354

Of the Burdens of this Life	371

Of the Worlds Wonders	379

Of Forethought	386

Of Fidelity	394

NOTES	401

68	474

379	530

382	538

APPENDIX	541

Title	Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots, Volume 2 Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots, Charles Swan
Translated by	Charles Swan
Publisher	C. and J. Rivington, 1824
Original from	Indiana University
Digitized	7 Jun 2012

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