Note 18 — THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY PART I

Then did his horse the homeward track descry. The memory of the horse forms the ground-work of a pleasing little romance of the twelfth century, entitled, “Lai du Palefroi vair.” See Fabliaux du XII Siecle. Ariosto likewise introduces it in a passage full of truth and nature. When Bayardo meets Angelica in the forest, ……..Va mansueto a la Donzella, ……………………………. Ch’in Albracca il servìa già di sua mano. ORLANDO FURIOSO, canto i. 75.