[25] See especially Macaire, ed. Guessard, Paris, 1860.
[26] So also the geste of Montglane became the Nerbonesi.
[27] Ed. S. Lee, London, 1883-86.
[28] Roland, ll. 2233-2246.
[29] I.e., Mecca.
[30] Corée is not merely = cœur, but heart, liver, and all the upper "inwards."
[31] Li Bastars de Bouillon (ed. Scheler, Brussels, 1877).
[32] Not always; for the English romance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries has on the whole been too harshly dealt with. But its average is far below that of the chansons.
[33] This will explain the frequent recurrence of the title "Enfances ——" in the list given above. A hero had become interesting in some exploit of his manhood: so they harked back to his childhood.
[34] Ed. Jonckbloët, op. cit., i. 1-71.