Foot-Note . A toss-up

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" Austors de maensac ", you have not told enough.

Two brothers were there, Piere and Austors,
And one castle, " Two men tossing a coin"
Which one should keep it,

which one should chose trobar .

Old Lehvi, the kindly,
Protractor of dictionaries,
Still stalled in Freiburg,
Proof against kultur,
Able to run cross town

for Arnaut's music

Scratched in my fist -- God knows I couldn't sing it,
Still he would have it so, would have me " sing" it,
Me, with a scale as bad as Piere Dalvrene's,
A clucking of ditch frogs --

Good old Lehvi will tell you
Whether and when and after whose example
Piere and Austor's, tossing a marabotin,
Saved legal expenses, saved Altaforte's troubles.
Four brothers were in that castle.

(--" Four daughters had Raimon Berengar

And every one a Queen.")

A "fair man was Piere de Maensac"

Some catch to run :

The Eglantine
Lies in the light
See how the water takes it !
Wind shakes the spray.
The dew forsakes it.
So fresh the morn, so fine
The turn of her cheek is .........

Sleek as a petal, doubtless,

La Belle Arlesienne : There were such verses, doubtless.

Dates have escaped me, she slipped her teether,

Up through the fire-bitten country, Le Pui? Red Rhodez?

Theanus caught at the priests, King "enelaus

Caught at a tangling oath, so much between them.

Dauphin : King Priam, but he held his places.

"Ab lo gran guerra que fan"

The priests did not break this man,

Piere kept his mistress, Dauphin has his towers,

No Homer sang them,

only Uc St. Circ :

Ten lines of prose, "fonds français" Paris.

834 perhaps.

I have lost the number.