Chapter XXXVII: The Earl of Angiers

The erle of Angiers being falsely accused, was banished out of Fraunce, and left his two sonnes in sondry places in Englande, and retourning (vnknowen) by Scotlande, founde theim in great authoritie, afterwardes he repayred in the habite of a seruaunte, to the Frenche kinges armie, and being knowen to be innocent, was againe aduaunced to his first estate.

[_Source._--Boccaccio, _Decamerone_, giorn. ii., nov. 8.

_Origin._--Dante, _Purg._ vi. 22, and frame of _Seven Wise Masters_.

_Parallels._--_Mediæval:_ _Guillaume de la Barre_, ed. P. Meyer;
Jacob à Voragine, _Legenda aurea_, 176; _Gesta Rom._ 48; _Mod.:_
Goethe, _Vertriebener Graf_.

_Painter._--I. i. 85; II. i. 78; III. i. 142; IV. i. 156.

_Derivates._--Ayres, the German dramatist (+ 1605), who derived much
from the English comedians, had a drama called _Graf von Angiers_.]