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later. His/her harvest of 107 "Fox Fables" it won the wide popularity for them,
the intelligence and point please they combined with their proper use of Biblical sentences to
the medieval taste. The fables in this harvest are every old, many of
theirs that is AEsop, but it is very possible that the first knowledge of
AEsop earned in England you/he/she was deduced by a Latin translation of Berachya.
Greater poetic worth the "Book of Joseph Zabara of Delight", written it was
in about the year 1200 in Spain. In this poetic novel a great number
of ancient fables and histories it is picked, but they is thrown in a
frame-job that is partly original. A night to which him, the author has placed
remains after a lot of toil, when a giant appeared in front of him, and he offered him
increase. Joseph respected with hurry, and from the light of the lamp that the
brought giant participated of an excellent banquet for which scattered his/her visitor
him. Enan, for such it was the name of the giant, offered to pick up Joseph to
another earth, pleasant as a garden, where all the men were loving, all the men
wise. But Joseph refused, and you/he/she said Enan you/he/she tells tales after fable, around
leopards, foxes and lions everybody that tries that it was best for a man to
remains where he was and it doesn't travel to foreign places. But Enan blandishes
Joseph to go with him, and as them they ride on, they says a lot each other a
long series of excellent histories, and it exchanges many witty comments and
anecdotes. When they finally arrives to the city of Enan, Joseph discovers that
its guide is a demon. In the end, Joseph detaches from him, and
he/she returns home to Barcelona. Now it is very extraordinary, that this
harvest of histories, written in Jewish delicious it resembles to from near the
other harvests in which it pleased him later Europe. It is hard to
believes that the job of Zabara didn't have influence in to spread these histories. To
all the events, Hebrews, Cristiano and Moslems every reading and it enjoyed the
same histories, all laughed to the same jokes. "It is", it says the Mr. Jacobs,