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 and Sentiments. 265 Loheren polgnent for le bore dcfrochkr. La 'vi'ijjic-z ma'inte chambre brifier^ Et mainte huche effondrer et percier, Et trcuent robes, et argent, et or mier. — Mort de Garia, p. 168. So in the romance of" Garin," of which that juft quoted is the fequel, on a limilar occafion, " there you might fee them rob the great halls, and break open the chambers, and force the cotTers {efcrins),'" — La -ve'ijficz les grans Jalles roher ; Chambres brijier, et les ejcrins forcier. — Garin le Loherain, torn. i. p. 197. Further on, in the fame romance, the fair Beatrix, addrelling her hulband, the duke Begues, tells him that he has gold and filver in his cotters, — Or et argent a'ue% en 'vos ejcrins. — lb., torn. ii. p. 218. Money was, indeed, commonly kept in the huche or coffer. In the fabliau of " Conftant Duhamel," when Conftant is threatened by the No. 1 90. Jjcph buying up the Corn. forefter, who had detained his oxen on the pretence that they had been found trefpaffing, he tells him that he was ready to redeem them, as he had a hundred fols of money in his hutch by his bed — yai en ma huche le'x. tnon lit. Cent fols de dcniers a -vojlre oes. — Barbazan, iii. 307. In the accompanying cut (No. 190), from a manufcript of the four- M M teenth