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 and Sentiments. 127 They enter, and clofe the door. The apartment on the foler, although there was a bed in it, is not called a chamber, but a room or faloon {perrin) : — Sife dejcendent del perrin^ Contre'val les degree enjin V",ndrent errant en la maifon. The expreffion that they came down the flairs, and into the hoiife, thows that the ftaircafe was outfide. In another fabliau, De la lorgoife d'Orlie/is, a burgher comes to his wife in the difguife of her gallant, and the lady, difcovering the fraud, locks him up in the foler, pretending he is to wait there till the houfe- hold is in bed — ye "vous metra'i pri-ve'ement En un jol'ier dont j ^ai la clef. She then goes to meet her ami, and they come from the garden (vergier) dire6t into the chamber without entering the hall. Here llie tells him to wait while flie goes in there (Id dedans), to give her people their fupper, and Ihe leaves him while fhe goes into the hall. The lady after- wards fends her fervants to beat her hulband, pretending him to be an importunate fuitor whom flie willies to punilli ! " he waits for me up there in that room :" — La Jus rnafent en ce perln. Nefouffrez pas que il en ijfe, Am% racueilUer al folkr haut. They beat him as he defcends the flairs, and purfue him into the garden, all which pafles without entering the lower apartments of the houfe. The foler, or upper part of the houfe, appears to have been conlidered the place of greateft fecurity — in fa6t it could only be entered by one door, which was approached by a flight of fteps, and was therefore more eafiily defended than the ground floor. In the beautiful fl:ory De C ermite qui s'acompaigna a lange, the hermit and his companion feek a night's lodging at the houfe of a rich but miferly ufurer, who refufes them admittance into the houfe, and will only permit them to fleep under the fl:aircafe, in what the llory terms an auvent or flied. The next morning the