SOURCE: "Scholastic Commentary and Robert Henryson's Morall Fabillis: The Aesopic Fables," in Studies in Philology, Vol. XCI, No. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 70-99.
In the following essay, Wheatley asserts that Henryson's edition of Aesopian fables depends on paraphrases and interpretations, intended to educate medieval readers about social or spiritual issues.
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