Tales from the Old French

COPYRIGHT 1910 BY ISABEL BUTLER
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THE LAY OF THE BIRD		3
THE WOFUL KNIGHT	Marie de France	17
THE TWO LOVERS	Marie de France	26
ELIDUC	Marie de France	35
MELION		73
THE LAY OF THE HORN	Robert Biquet	93
THE DIVIDED BLANKET	Bernier	111
OF THE CHURL WHO WON PARADISE		125
THE GRAY PALFREY	Huon Leroi	131
THE KNIGHT OF THE LITTLE CASK		173
THE ANGEL AND THE HERMIT		207
THE JOUSTING OF OUR LADY		228
THE ORDER OF CHIVALRY		232
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Lais

The Lay of the Bird

Once upon a time, a hundred years and more agone, there lived a rich villein; his name I know not