POPULAR SONGS. 



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earlier than the thirteenth century, but there may be instanced a very singular 

 Latin song relating to the story of Abclard, and composed by his pupil Hilaire 



Fig. 321. Duke Philip the Good, being sick, intrusts the education of his son Charles, Comte de 

 Charolois, to Georges Chastelain, the Poet and Chronicler. Miniature from the " Instruction 

 d'uu jeune Prince." Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, executed by the Painters of the 

 Court of Burgundy. In the Arsenal Library, Paris. 



about 1122, when his illustrious muster, condemned by the Council of Soissons 



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