‘Mès sulum ço que j’ai oy
N’el dient pas sulum Breri,
Ky solt les gestes e les cuntes
De tuz les reis, de tuz les cuntes
Ki orent esté en Bretaingne.’
[299] G. Paris, in Hist. Litt. xxx. 1-22; Litt. Fr. §§ 53-5; Nutt, Legend of the Holy Grail, 228; Rhys, Arthurian Legend, 370-90. These views have been vigorously criticized by Prof. Zimmer in Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (1891), 488, 785, and elsewhere.
[300] David, op. cit. 13, 235; cf. p. 54.
[301] Paris, §§ 118, 122, and Orig. (passim); Jeanroy, 1, 84, 102, 387; Lang. et Litt. i. 345; cf. ch. viii. Texts of chansons à personnages and pastourelles in Bartsch, Altfranzösische Romanzen und Pastourellen; of aubes in Bartsch, Chrestomathie de l’ancien français.
[302] Paris, § 126; Orig. (passim); Jeanroy, 45, and in Lang. et Litt. i. 384; Bartsch, Grundriss der prov. Lit. 34; Hueffer, The Troubadours, 112; Stimming in Gröber’s Grundriss, ii. 2. 24.
[303] In 1386 we hear of ‘des compaingnons, pour de jeux de parture juer et esbattre’ at Douai (Julleville, Rép. Com. 323), which looks as if, by the end of the fourteenth century, the partures were being professionally performed.