--- title: LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham — More English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham # LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 19 sentences and 282 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/2/) — \_--\_Diary of Abraham de la Pryme\_ (Surtees Soc.) under date 10th November, 1699, but rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has retained the few characteristic seventeenth century touches of Pryme's dull and colourless narration. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/3/) — There is a somewhat fuller account in Blomefield's \_History of Norfolk\_, vi., 211-13, from Twysden's \_Reminiscences\_, ed. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/4/) — Hearne, p. 299, in this there is a double treasure; the first in an iron pot with a Latin inscription, which the pedlar, whose name is John Chapman, does not understand. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/5/) — Inquiring its meaning from a learned friend, he is told-- - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/6/) — Under me doth lie Another much richer than I. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/7/) — He accordingly digs deeper and finds another pot of gold. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/8/) — \_Parallels. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/9/) — \_--Blomefield refers to Fungerus, \_Etymologicum Latino-Græcum\_, pp. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/10/) — 1110-11, where the same story is told of a peasant of Dort, in Holland, who was similarly directed to go to Kempen Bridge. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/11/) — Prof. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/12/) — E.B. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/13/) — Cowell, who gives the passage from Fungerus in a special paper on the subject in the \_Journal of Philology\_, vi., 189-95, points out that the same story occurs in the \_Masnávi\_ of the Persian port Jalaluddin, whose \_floruit\_ is 1260 A.D. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/14/) — Here a young spendthrift of Bagdad is warned in a dream to repair to Cairo, with the usual result of being referred back. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/15/) — \_Remarks. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/16/) — \_--The artificial character of the incident is sufficient to prevent its having occurred in reality or to more than one inventive imagination. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/17/) — It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/18/) — Prof. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/54/19/) — Cowell suggests that it was possibly adapted at the latter place to account for the effigy of the pedlar and his dog. - ← previous: [LXII. Scrapefoot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/53/) - next →: [LXIV. the Old Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/55/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/)