Endnotes

1. Nicolas indeed declares of Adhelmar, earlier in the tale, in such high terms as are not uncommon to this chronicle:

   Hardi estait et fier comme lions,
   Et si faisait balades et chançons,
   Rondeaulx et laiz, très bans et pleins de grâce,
   Comme Orpheus, cet menestrier de Thrace.

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2. There is humor in his deposition that Gilles and Ysabeau and he were loitering before Saint Benoit’s in friendly discourse⁠—“pour soy esbatre.” Perhaps René prompted this; but in itself, it is characteristic of Montcorbier that he trenched on perjury, blithely, in order to screen Ysabeau. ↩