[211] “Ges no mi desconort,” ll. 9-14.

[212] G. Vigeois, l.c.

[213] “Nom chal d’Autafort, Mais far dreit ni tort, Qu’el jutjamen crei Monsenhor lo rei”; last four lines of “Ges de far sirventes.”

[214] “Ges de far,” ll. 9, 10.

[215] Literally “as true as any silver”—“fi com us argens,” “Ges no mi desconort,” l. 50.

[216] Gesta, i. 308.

[217] A. Richard, Comtes de Poitou, ii. 373, from a document in the cartulary of Fontevraud. The “five years” which John is there stated to have spent in the abbey must be prior to February 1173; this appears from later notices of his whereabouts cited in my John Lackland, pp. 7, 8.

[218] Gesta, i. 308.

[219] G. Vigeois, 342.

[220] Ib., 338.