Note 4 — Chapter IX
Daniel De Leon translation
This song was composed by Mylio during the invasion of Languedoc by the Catholic Crusaders. Leaving his wife Florette in the care of Karvel and Morise, he went singing the poem from city to city, while Goose-Skin, accompanying the trouvere, sang his own composition, the refrain of which ran:
"Pouah! Pouah! These monks!
They are rank of the mire, of lechery and blood!"