Style, metre, rhyme, language, art of every kind, is at an end; beneath the vain parade of official style there is only a heap of rubbish. Yet, as he says, "Though my rhyme be ragged, Tattered and gagged, Rudely rain-beaten, Rusty, moth-eaten, Yf ye take welle therewithe, It hath in it some pithe." It is full of political animus, sensual liveliness, English and popular instincts; it lives. It is a coarse life, still elementary, swarming with ignoble vermin, like that which appears in a great decomposing body. It is life, nevertheless, with its two great features which it is destined to display: the hatred of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, which is the Reformation; the return to the senses and to natural life, which is the Renaissance. [Footnote 193: Born between 1328 and 1345, died in 1400.] [Footnote 194: Renan, "De l'Art au Moyen Age."] [Footnote 195: See Froissart, his life with the Count of Foix and with King Richard II.] [Footnote 196: "Knight's Tale," II. p. 59, lines 1957-1964.] [Footnote 197: "Knight's Tale," II. p. 59, lines 1977-1996.] [Footnote 198: Ibid., p. 61, lines 2043-2050.] [Footnote 199: "Knight's Tale," II. p. 63, lines 2120-2188.] [Footnote 200: The House of Fame.] [Footnote 201: André le Chapelain, 1170.] [Footnote 202: Also the "Court of Love," and perhaps "The Assemble of Ladies" and "La Belle Dame sans Merci."] [Footnote 203: "Troilus and Cressida," vol, V. bk. 3, p. 12.] [Footnote 204: "Troilus and Cressida," vol. V. bk. 3, p. 40.] [Footnote 205: Ibid. p. 4.] [Footnote 206: "Troilus and Cressida," vol. IV. bk. 2, p. 292.] [Footnote 207: Ibid. vol. V. bk. 4, p. 97.] [Footnote 208: "Troilus and Cressida," vol. V. bk. 5, p. 119 et passim.] [Footnote 209: "The Flower and the Leaf," VI. p. 244, lines 6-32.] [Footnote 210: Ibid. p. 245, line 33.] [Footnote 211: Ibid. VI. p. 246, lines 78-133.] [Footnote 212: "The Cuckow and Nightingale," VI. p. 121, lines 67-85.] [Footnote 213: Ibid. p. 126, lines 230-241.] [Footnote 214: Stendhal, "On Love: the difference of Love-taste and Love-passion."] [Footnote 215: "The Court of Love," about 1353, et seq. See also the "Testament of Love."] [Footnote 216: "Troilus and Cressida," vol. V. III. pp. 44, 45.] [Footnote 217: The story of the pear-tree (Merchant's Tale), and of the cradle (Reeve's Tale), for instance, in the "Canterbury Tales."] [Footnote 218: "Canterbury Tales" prologue, p. 10, line 323.] [Footnote 219: Ibid. p. 12, line 373.] [Footnote 220: "Canterbury Tales," prologue, p. 21, line 688.] [Footnote 221: Ibid. II. prologue, p. 14, line 460.] [Footnote 222: "Canterbury Tales," ii., Wife of Bath's Prologue, p. 168, lines 5610-5739.] [Footnote 223: Ibid. p. 179, lines 5968-6072.] [Footnote 224: "Canterbury Tales," ii., Wife of Bath's Prologue, p. 185, lines 6177-6188.] [Footnote 225: Ibid, prologue, II. p. 7, line 208 et passim.] [Footnote 226: "Canterbury Tales," The Sompnoures Tale, II. p. 220, lines 7319-7340.]