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poetry was more lively and graceful, consisting as it did of nongs and ballads, 

 of viivlays and roundelays. Mustache Desrhamps, who wrote an "Art dr 

 Dietier," in which he set forth the rules of these various kinds of fashionahlr 

 poelrv, iiil'onns us but his statement is a poetical license that formerly no 



Fig. 340. Legend of the " Trois Morts et des Trois Vifs," Poetry of the Fourteenth Century.- 

 From a Miniature of an " Antiphonalc." Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century, No. 6,614. 

 In the Burgundy Library, Brussels. 



one ventured to write poetry of this kind "unless he was noble" (Fig. 339). 

 This same Eustachc Deschamps, a warrior, a traveller, and a magistrate, 

 whose writings extend over more than eighty years, has left behind him 

 nearly a hundred thousand lines of poetry, most of which was ballad. 11'- 



