Gesta Romanorum

(g soft), compiled by Pierre Bercheur, prior of the Benedictine convent of St. Eloi, Paris, published by the Roxburgh Society. Edited by Sir F. Madden, and afterwards by S. J. Herrtage.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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