[7] Carm. Bur., p. 249, note. There is a variation in the parody printed by Wright, Rel. Antiq., ii.

[8] See A.P. von Bärnstein's little volume, Ubi sunt qui ante nos, p. 46.

[9] See especially the songs Ordo Noster and Nos Vagabunduli, translated below in Section xiii.

[10] See Wright's introduction to Walter Mapes.

[11] Ibid.

[12] Ibid.

[13] See Müldner, Die zehn Gedichte des Walther von Lille. 1859. Walter Mapes (ed. Wright) is credited with five of these satires, including two which close each stanza with a hexameter from Juvenal, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Horace.


VIII.

I do not think there is much probability of arriving at certainty with regard to the problems indicated in the foregoing section. We must be content to accept the names Golias and Goliardi as we find them, and to treat of this literature as the product of a class, from the midst of which, as it is clear to any critic, more than one poet rose to eminence.