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3. Three rondeaus, 10-syll., 5-3-5 (aabba), (aab), (aabba). The 

 words which begin line one are repeated after lines eight and 

 thirteen. 



4. One huitain, 8-s)^ll. " Rimes plates." 



5. One chant royal ("Champ Royal"), 10-syll. Five stanzas, of 

 eleven lines each, with an envoy of six lines (ababbccdede), (aababa). 

 Refrain, " Le Champ Royal en troys liz d'or plante." 



6. One " oraison," 8-syll. Eight stanzas (abab), except stanza 

 IV (aabb). 



7. Two quatrains, 8-syll. (aabb). 



3Iiscellaneous French poetry : 



1. Translation of the Latin poem, " Aenigma de lilio." Forty 

 lines, 10-syll. " Rimes plates." 



2. Dedication to the king. One hundred and forty-two lines, 

 10-syll. " Rimes plates." 



3. Dialogue, "Roy, Charite, Foy, Heretique, Dyable. Each 

 speaker has two lines. " Rimes plates," 8-syll. 



4. Appendices to the Latin distichs. One hundred and sixty-five 

 French distichs, 10-syll.' 



" Rime riche " is used almost entirely by the poet, and the 

 examples of leonine rime are very abundant. There are many cases 

 of overflow verse. From the large number of " rimes equivoques," 

 lit is evident that the author endeavored to use them as frequently as 

 possible. Some of the most striking of these rimes are : (1, verso), 

 maintient : la main tietit, prophetic davidique : david diH que., 

 corronipt : le colrompt ; (7, verso), je devaloys : Fran9ois de Valoys, 

 soubz France : sou f ranee, via part tient : xn!appartient ; (11, verso), 

 bumb/(? vallet : le valloit, aidx dieux : odieux, lesqueilz avez : scavez, 

 (14, vei'so), amys : a mys, avant age : dCavantacje, rondeaulx : rondz 

 d''eaulz ; (18, verso), amer : Vamer ; (-23, recto), (Venvie : en vie ; (36, 

 recto), le corbeaii : le corps beau ; (45, verso), parler -.par Vair. 



The following rimes are of interest from the point of view of 

 pronunciation : (3, recto), ateste : texte, dextre : croistre ; (3, verso), 

 droicte : extraicte ; (3, recto), congnoistre : dextre; (5, verso), estre : 

 paroestre ; (7, verso), monde : habunde, regne : Royne ; (9, recto), 

 vouloir : voller ; (11, verso), memoire : encore, parler : vouloir ; (42, 

 verso), ce)>tre : dextre ; (45, verso), parler: par I'air, valletz : valoys. 



(Syllabification.) Our author, the same as the other writers of 

 his time, employs various forms of hiatus which are forbidden by 

 modern rules. He differs from many of his contemporaries, however, 



^ For the titles of the Latin selections, see the table of contents, p. 89. 



