_Bleve_ (quickly) _to soper they dyght,_ _Both squiere and knyght;_ _They daunsed and revelide that nyght,_ _In hert were they blythe_. In a fabliau published by Barbazan, on the arrival in a nobleman’s castle of a knight who is treated with especial courtesy, the knights and ladies dance after supper, and then, at bed-time, they conduct the visitor into his bed-chamber, and drink with him there before they leave him:-- _Après mengier, chascuns comence_ _De faire caroles et dance,_ Tant qu’il fu houre de couchier;_ _Puis anmainment le chevalier_ _En sa chambre où fait fu son lit,_ _Et là burent par grant delit;_ _Puis prinrent congié._ Fruit was usually eaten after supper. In a fabliau of the thirteenth century, a noble visitor having been received in the house of a knight, they go immediately to supper. “After they had done eating, they enjoyed themselves in conversation, and then they had fruit,” and it was only after this that they washed-- _Après mengier se sont deduit_ _De paroles, puis si ont fruit._ In the lay of the “Chevalier à l’Espée,” Sir Gauwain takes, instead of supper, fruit and wine before he goes to bed. The custom of keeping early hours still prevailed, and is very frequently alluded to. People are generally described as rising with the sun. Such was the case with the king, in the romance of “Parise la Duchesse”-- _Landemain par matin, quand solaus fu levez,_ _Se leva li rois Hugues._ --Parise, ed. P. Paris, p. 219.