A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the RenaissanceJusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)
English literature -- History and criticism
The text of the sermon, as we have it is in Latin; it has long but
wrongly been attributed to Stephen Langton; printed by T. Wright in his
"Biographia Britannica, Anglo-Norman period," 1846, p. 446.
[203] "Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne," eleventh century. Only one MS. has
been preserved, written in England, in the thirteenth century; it has
been edited by Koschwitz, "Karls des Grossen Reise nach Jerusalem und
Konstantinopel," Heilbronn, 1880, 8vo. _Cf._ G. Paris, "La poesie
francaise au moyen age," 1885, p. 119, and "Romania," vol. ix.
[204] "Le Roman de Renart," ed. E. Martin, Strasbourg, 1882-7, 4 vols.
8vo; contains: vol. i., the old series of branches; vol. ii., the
additional branches; vol. iii., variants; vol. iv., notes and tables.
Most of the branches were composed in Normandy, Ile-de-France, Picardy;
the twelfth is the work of Richard de Lison, a Norman, end of the
twelfth century; several, for example the fourteenth, evince on the part
of their author a knowledge of the English tongue and manners.
Concerning the sources of the "Roman," see Sudre, "Les Sources du Roman
de Renart," Paris, 1892, 8vo.
[205] Caricature of a funeral ceremony:--
Brun li ors, prenez vostre estole ...
Sire Tardis li limacons
Lut par lui sol les trois lecons
Et Roenel chanta les vers. (Vol. i. p. 12.)
[206]
Seigneurs, oi avez maint conte
Que maint conterre vous raconte,
Conment Paris ravi Eleine,
Le mal qu'il en ot et la paine ...
Et fabliaus, chansons de geste ...
Mais onques n'oistes la guerre,
Qui tant fu dure et de grant fin
Entre Renart et Ysengrin.
(Prologue of Branch II.)
[207]
"Or dont," dit Nobles, "au deable!
Por le cuer be, sire Ysengrin,
Prendra ja vostre gerre fin?"
(Vol. i. p. 8.)
[208]
... Sire Chanticler li cos,
Et Pinte qui pont les ues gros
Et Noire et Blanche et la Rossete
Amenoient une charete
Qui envouxe ert d'une cortine.
Dedenz gisoit une geline
Que l'en amenoit en litere
Fete autresi con une bere.
Renart l'avoit si maumenee
Et as denz si desordenee
Que la cuisse li avoit frete
Et une ele hors del cors trete.
(Vol. i. p. 9.)
[209]
... Renart ne l'en laissa
De totes cinc que une soule:
Totes passerent par sa goule.
Et vos qui la gisez en bere,
Ma douce suer m'amie chere,
Con vos estieez tendre et crasse!
Que fera vostre suer la lasse?
(Vol. i. p. 10.)
[210]
Pinte la lasse a ces paroles
Chai, pamee el pavement
Et les autres tot ensement.
Por relever les quatre dames,
Se leverent de leurs escames
Et chen et lou et autres bestes,
Eve lor getent sor les testes.
[211]
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