The following is a comparative table of the tales in (1) the two early English metrical versions of the Seven Sages, 13th and 14th centuries, edited by Weber and Wright; (2) the French metrical Roman des Sept Sages, about 1284, edited by Keller; (3) the Latin prose text, Liber de Septem Sapientibus, edited by Goedeke;* and (4) the Latin prose version, Historia Septem Sapientum Romœ, Geneva, 1492, and its derivatives:

SEVEN WISE MASTERS.		ROMAN DES SEPT SAGES.	LIBER DE VII SAP.	HIST. VII SAP.
Ellis. Weber. Wright.		Keller.	Goedeke.	Copland, Rolland.
Queen 1	Tree and Branch	Id.	Id.	Id.
1st Sage	Dog and Snake	Id.	Id.	Id.
Queen 2	Wild Boar	Queen 3	Id.	Id.
2nd Sage	Hippocrates	Id.	Id.	5th Sage
Queen 3	King's Treasury	Queen 5	Id.	Id.
3rd Sage	Husband Shut Out	Id.	4th Sage	2nd Sage
Queen 4	King and Seneschal	Queen 2	Id.	Queen 6
4th Sage	Wise Old Man	Id.	3rd Sage.	Id.
Queen 5	Merlin's Pillar	Queen 7	Id.	Id.
5th Sage	Burgess and Magpie	Id.	Id.	3rd Sage
Queen 6	VII Evil Counsellors	Id.	Id.	Queen 4
6th Sage	Widow Comforted	Id.	Id.	7th Sage
Queen 7	Siege of Rome	Queen 4		Queen 6
7th Sage	Two Dreams	Id.		Queen 7
Prince	Ravens	Id.	Id.	Id.
			Queen 7, Daughter
			7th Sage, Stepmother
				6th Sage, Three Lovers

It will be observed that our old English versions have the same stories that occur in the Sept Sages, though not all in the same order; while the Liber de Septem Sapientibus has, in place of the Siege of Rome and the Dreams, two tales which reappear in several other texts represented in Goedeke's com­parative table, and are as follows: