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 and Sentiments. 287 And, in the " Roman de Berte" (p. 4), Charles Martel is reprefented as dining fimilarly in the garden, at the midfummer feafon, when the rofe was in bloffom — Entour le faint J eh an, que la rofe efi jieurie. There is an early Latin ftory of a man who had a croff-grained wife. One day he invited fome friends to dinner, and let out his table in his No. 1 94. A Mediat'ol Garden Scene. garden, by the fide of a river {fecit poni menfam in hortu fuo prope aquam). The lady feated herfelf by the water-fide, at a little diftance from the table, and call: a very forbidding look upon her hulband's guefts ; upon which he laid to her, " Show a pleafant countenance to our guefis, and