[21] These will be found in M. Edélestand du Méril’s Poésies Populaires Latines antérieures au douzième siècle, pp. 275, 276.
[22] This, and the metrical story next referred to, were printed in the “Altdeutsche Blätter,” edited by Moriz Haupt and Heinrich Hoffmann, vol. i. pp. 390, 392, to whom I communicated them from a manuscript in the University Library at Cambridge.
[23] The text of this singular composition, with a full account of the various forms in which it was published, will be found in M. du Méril’s “Poésies Populaires Latines antérieures au douzième siècle,” p. 193.
[24] “Formam quandam villosam, hispidam, et hirsutam, adeoque enormiter deformem.” Girald. Camb., Itiner. Camb., lib. i. c. 5.
[25] An engraving of this scene, modernised in character, is given in Nichols’s “Leicestershire,” vol. i. plate 43.
[26] The Latin text of this and some others of the fables of Odo de Cirington will be found in my “Selection of Latin Stories,” pp. 50-52, 55-58, and 80.
[27] See the dissertation by M. Paulin Paris, published in his nice popular modern abridgment of the French romance, published in 1861, under the title “Les Aventures de Maître Renart et d’Ysengrin son compère.” On the debated question of the origin of the Romance, see the learned and able work by Jonckbloet, 8vo., Groningue, 1863.
[28] “Insultationes, clamores, sonos, et alios tumultus, in secundis et tertiis quorundam nuptiis, quos charivarium vulgo appellant, propter multa et gravia incommoda, prohibemus sub pœna excommunitationis.”—Ducange, v. Charivarium.
[29] Cotgrave’s Dictionarie, v. Charivaris.
[30] r. Llewellynn Jewitt, in his excellent publication, the Reliquary, for October, 1862, has given an interesting paper on the encaustic tiles found on this occasion, and on the conventual house to which they belonged.