ADDITIONAL NOTE TO BOOK NINTH.
—In Gyan land full haistely couth ryd.—
A werlik toun so fand thai in that land,
Quhilk Schenown hecht, that Inglissmen had in hand.—V. 441.
—In Schynnown still Wallace his duelling maid.—B. XI. 69.
I can find no place in Guienne, bearing any nominal resemblance. Henry’s geography, of France especially, could not be expected to be very accurate. He had most probably heard of Chinon, a village in Touraine, near Saumur, which was indeed held by the English, and which might be viewed as on the way from Paris to Guienne. Here Henry II. of England died; and here, also, that singular writer Rabelais was born.