[558] Gesta, 129-32.

[559] Est., ll. 1053-74; Itin., 171, 172. In the printed edition of the Estoire, line 1062 reads thus: “Richarz qui n’est aver ne chinches.” If est be really the reading of the MS., it of course places beyond all doubt the correctness of M. Gaston Paris’s assertion that the poet “a certainement écrit avant la mort de Richard” (introd., p. 1.). But M. Paris does not cite this line in support of his assertion, and in his modern French version of the poem he renders the line “Richard, qui n’était pas chiche ni avare” (p. 347). We are therefore at present left in doubt whether n’est be not here a misprint for n’ert.

[560] Gesta, 157.

[561] Ib., 146, 147.

[562] Est., ll. 1080-1108; cf. Gesta, 150.

[563] Gesta, 150, 151.

[564] See above, [p. 79].

[565] Gesta, 155-7.

[566] Rigord, 107.

[567] Est., ll. 1145-8.