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[Ne oil voir n'oreille oir] ^ 

 Joie tant face conioir. 



Ci endroit faut Eructavit,'' 

 Li bons salmes au roi David, 

 Ou damedex nos mostre au doi 

 Lou fondement de nostre loi. 

 Chanson de chambre I'apela 

 Ainsi com Dex li revela. 

 vSaichiez que c'est fontaine et puis : 

 Plus hi a que dire ne puis. 



Le gentil suer lou roi de France, 

 Recorde ci vostre creance. 

 Pansez, dame, de bien amer, 

 De servir Deu et reclamer 

 Celui qui la foi nos espire 

 Ou vostre gentiz cuers se mire. 



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Mont I'avez fin e agusie, 

 Ne sai ou vos avez pusie, 

 Mas d'une rien(?) fais je saige ^ 

 Que mont avez grant avantaige 

 C'un mot ai en sainte escriture 

 Qui grant bien vos asseure : 

 Qui Deu aime, de lui enquiert 

 Seure soit il que meulz Ten ert ; 

 Mont met son cuer an bon escole 



lo Qui velontex ot sa parole. 



Et vos estes toz jors li prestes 

 Au roi a destre e a senestre, 

 Li bons maistre don vos avez 

 Retenu ce quevossavez. 



15 Si com il est veras amis, 



Croissent li bien qu'il hi a mis. 



1. Wanting only in this copy. 



2. Here and at the beginning spelled 

 by the copyist Erui'tavit. 



[Explicit Eructavit.] 



1. Mes d'une chose vos fais sage. 

 The above is the usual reading. 



With one exception, all copies consulted are immediately followed 

 by some sixty lines, of the same meter and style, which were evi- 

 dently regarded by copyists as a continuation of the Eructavit itself. 

 This seems, however, to be a separate composition, or probably two, — 

 being a narrative of Isaiah's martyrdom and of the miraculous quench- 

 ing of his thirst, twenty lines, followed by a prayer of forty lines, 

 divided into three portions, to which the divine names of the Gloria 

 serve as titles. That these forty lines form an independent composi- 

 tion would appear also from the fact that they are found appended to 

 another Biblical paraphrase of a different meter ; in this case, too, a 

 metrical version of the Som::; of Solofnon.^ 



The Madrid copy is alone in adding at the end : 



'Amen : que eel sire I'otroit 

 Qui ceu bien set et ot et voit.' 



These two lines are much like a couplet ending an old metrical 

 version of tne Lord's Prayer and the creed, which version is consid- 

 ered the earlest existing in that form.'- 



' See Bonnard's Traductions de la Bible en vers francais au Moyen Age, p. 

 161. This work, published in 1884, shows that this form of religious poetry 

 was very abundant, and that much of it is still worthy of study. 



2 See Bulletin de la Societe des anciens textes francais, 1880, I. 



