He enters the order of Citeaux in consequence 260 His fanaticism 261 CHAPTER XXIV. GUILLEM FIGUEIRA AND PEIRE CARDINAL. Guillem Figueira ‘the hater of priests’ 263 His cynicism and love of low life 263 His sirventes against ‘Rome’ 264 Peire Cardinal represents a higher type 265 His life 265 His high moral tone and pessimism 266 A fable 266 His praise of Raimon VI. 268 His accusations of the priests 268 A theological sirventes 270 CHAPTER XXV. LADIES AND LADY TROUBADOURS. The lady of Provence 273 Her polite education 274 Her position in society 277 Eleanor, wife of Henry II., the patroness of Bernart de Ventadorn 279 The poems of lady troubadours subjective 282 CHAPTER XXVI. BEATRICE DE DIE. The representative lady troubadour 283 Her love for Rambaut of Orange 283 She imitates his style 284 Her tenso written in conjunction with Rambaut 286 Her song of resignation 288 CHAPTER XXVII. THE COURTS OF LOVE. Their fictitious character 291 Raynouard’s theory untenable 292 Andreas Capellanus 294 PART III. _TECHNICAL._ CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ORIGIN OF RHYME. Definition of rhythm 299 Metrical system of Greek, of Roman, and of early Teutonic poems 300 Different meanings of arsis and thesis 300 The leonine hexameter 302 Rhyme independent of metrical accent 303 Known to ancient poets 303 Wilhelm Grimm’s history of the rhyme 303