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 and Sentiments. iji Symon, they give her, for refrellimeiit, a chicken and wine. In the fabhau of the " riiai/i mire'' (Barbazan, vol. iii. p. 3), the farmer, who had laved money, and become tolerably rich, had no fuch luxuries as 'imur tcte-a-tcte. lalmon or partridge, but his provilions confifted only of bread and wine, and fried eggs, and cheefe in abundance — N^orent pc2s Jaumon ne pcitris, Piiin et 'vin crent, et oes frh, Et du frcmage a grant plente. The franlvlin, in Chaucer, is put forward as an example of great liberality in the articles of provilions : — An /loufckoldere, and that a gret, ivas he, Seynt Julian he tvas in his countre'. His breedj his ale, ivas ahvay after oon ; A bettre en-vyned man ivas noiuher nocn. Withoute bake mete ivas ne-ver his hous, Offl^'JJ'^/' andfiJJ'ch, and that fo plentyvous, Itfneived in his hous of mete and drynke. Of all e deyntees that men coivde thynkc. Aftur the fondry fcfouns of the yeer^ He chaunged hem at mete and at soper. Ful many a fat part rich had he in metve. And many a brem and many a luce in fteive (li> p,„.cl), JFoo