A tour through the Pyrenees . any ; if they did come back to it, that was out ofyanity ; they wanted to set some Latin fable intheir songs, or some learned abstraction, withoutcomprehending a word of it, donning it for fashionssake, as the ermine of learning. With us of to-day, general ideas spring up in every mind,—livingand flourishing ones ; among the laity of that timetheir root was cut off, and among the clergy thereremained of them but a fagot of dead so mankind was only the better fitted forthe life of the body and more capable of violentpassions ; with regard to this the style
A tour through the Pyrenees . any ; if they did come back to it, that was out ofyanity ; they wanted to set some Latin fable intheir songs, or some learned abstraction, withoutcomprehending a word of it, donning it for fashionssake, as the ermine of learning. With us of to-day, general ideas spring up in every mind,—livingand flourishing ones ; among the laity of that timetheir root was cut off, and among the clergy thereremained of them but a fagot of dead so mankind was only the better fitted forthe life of the body and more capable of violentpassions ; with regard to this the style of Froissart, * See the discourse of Jean Petit on the assassination of the Duke ofOrleans. 68 THE VALLE Y OF OSSA U. Book II. artless as it is, deceives us. We think we arelistening to the pretty garrulousness of a child atplay ; beneath this prattle we must distinguish therude voice of the combatants, bear-hunters andhunters of men too, and the broad, coarse hos-pitality of feudal manners. At midnight the Count iil,4-|fc. of Foix came to supper in the great hall. Beforehim went twelve lighted torches, borne by twelvevalets: and the same twelve torches were held be-fore his table and gave much light unto the hall,which was full of knights and squires; and alwaysthere were plenty of tables laid out for any personwho chose to sup. It must have been an aston- Chap. I. DAX.—ORTHEZ. 69 ishing sight, to see those furrowed faces and pow-erful frames, with their furred robes and theirjusticoats streaked under the wavering flashes ofthe torches. One Christmas day, going into hisgallery, he saw that there was but a small fire,and spoke of it aloud. Thereupon a knight,Ernauton dEspagne, having looked out of thev/indow, saw in the court a number of asses with billets of wood for the use of the house. Heseized the largest of these asses with his load,threw him over his shoulders and carried him upstairs (there were twenty-four steps), pushingthrough the crowd of knights and squires wh
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