Chanticleer and the Fox the question of its origin. It has also been asserted that the tale has developed out of the basic situation in Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow. Early examples of the story are pithily fabular but towards the middle of the 12th century it appears as an extended episode of the "Reynard cycle" under the title "How Renart captured Chanticleer the cock" ("Si comme Renart prist Chanticler le Coq"). The work of which it was part was immensely popular and spread widely in translation. The basic situation concerns the cock Chanticleer, who lives with his three wives in
The Cock and the Jasp The Cock and the Jasp "The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp" is a Middle Scots version of Aesop's Fable "The Cock and the Jewel" by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson. It is the first in Henryson's collection known as the "Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian". "The Cok and the Jasp" is framed by a prologue and a "moralitas", and as the first poem in the collection it operates on a number of levels, and in all its parts, to introduce the larger cycle. Although the Aesopian tale of "The Cock and the Jewel", which Henryson re-tells,