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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

Note 137 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY

Lucy Toulmin Smith translation

“Chascuns ne gist mie a part soy,

Mais deux et deux en chambre obscure,

Ou le plus souvent troy et troy,

En un seul lit à l’aventure,”

with fleas as big as those of the monks of Citeaux. “Œuvres Complètes,” ed. de Queux de St. Hilaire, vol vii. pp. 79, 117.

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