[466]. A suspicion that R. B. is japing (see his Amyntas: A-mint-Asse, in the 4th of the fourteen “sonnets”), vanishes with careful reading of these highly interesting “experiments.”
[467]. Carm. lxii. 39 ff.
[468]. Recorded as a fifteenth-century carol in the Sloane Ms.
[469]. See, however, the caution uttered by M. Jeanroy against the idea that songs of the Carmina Burana represent popular poetry (Origines de la Poésie Lyrique en France, pp. 304 f.). Ingenious repetition, whether in refrains of the triolet type, or in the Portuguese type represented by these verses, and in certain other poems of artificial construction (Jeanroy, p. 309):—
Per ribeira do rio
vy remar o navio;
et sabor ey da ribeyra!
Per ribeyra do alto
vy remar o barco;
et sabor, etc.