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. A summer in western France. exactly that which the rules of love,made and provided, in similar cases en-joined. The best opinion on all such knotty caseswas the troubadour, and Savary consultedthe provost of Limoges, homme vaillant,bon trouveur. He read to him, we are told,an account of the whole matter, and then pria le pr^vot de lui faire une question envers, et de proposer dans une tenson, auqueldes deux rendezvous il devait donner la pre-ference. The author of the history of the trouba-dours remarks, that the provost of Limogesis known to us only by the piece which hecomposed on this occ
. A summer in western France. exactly that which the rules of love,made and provided, in similar cases en-joined. The best opinion on all such knotty caseswas the troubadour, and Savary consultedthe provost of Limoges, homme vaillant,bon trouveur. He read to him, we are told,an account of the whole matter, and then pria le pr^vot de lui faire une question envers, et de proposer dans une tenson, auqueldes deux rendezvous il devait donner la pre-ference. The author of the history of the trouba-dours remarks, that the provost of Limogesis known to us only by the piece which hecomposed on this occasion. The troubadour, who was thus applied to,as Hugh de St. Cyr goes on to relate, chose asjudges of the question the ladies Guillemettede Benanguisse, Marie de Ventadour, andMadame de Montferan, to whom Savary de-clares he has no objection, saying that theywere all three si savantes en amour, quilse soumct 4 tout ce quelles diront. It is rather provoking that the decision ofthe fair umpires is iK)t recorded, the object of. i> LA7EMM£ LA PLUS ilARDIJ£ QUI NE FUT JAMAIS SAVARYS SECOND ADVENTURE. 233 the narrator having been apparently merelyto give the subject of the provosts poem. A second adventure of our friend Savary,which the above mentioned historian extractsfrom another manuscript, is not less curious,and gives ample testimony to the competence,experience, and savoir, of one of the judgesin the former case, the lady Guillemette deBenanguisse. The gallant Savary went one day to pay avisit to this lady, with whom also he was inlove; and Rudel,lordofBergerac,andGeoffroyRudel went with him ; et ils la prierenttons trois damour; car Ian auparavant elleavait retenu chacun deux pour son chevalier,sans quils le sussent Iun Iautre. Setantassis Iun a sa droite, Iautre a sa gauche etle troisieme devant, chacun deux la regardaitamoreusement; elle, comme femme la plushardie qui fut jamais, commenca k regarderamoreusement Geoffroy Rudel de Bleay, quietait assis devant elle
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