ROHfANCES. 



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birth to the "Recreations et Joyeux Devis" of Bonaventure des Periers; to 

 the " Discours d'Eutrupel ; " to the " Matinees " and to the " Apres-din^es " of 

 Cholieres ; and, lastly, to the " Soirees," by Guillaume Bouchet. 



In the meanwhile the ancient romances of chivalry, all originating in 



Fig. 316. " How the Actor lost his way, and arrived in front of the Palace of Love, into which 

 Desire bid him enter, while Remembrance held him back.'" Miniature from the " Chevalier 

 Delibere," by Olivier de la Marche. Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, No. 173. In the 

 Arsenal Library, Paris. 



France and bearing upon them the impress of that origin, had been trans- 

 lated or adapted into every language since the thirteenth century. Not only 

 in Germany, Holland, and England, but in Sweden, Denmark, and even in 



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