Note 543 — Chapter VIII · THE MAY-GAME
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Paris, loc. cit. 410; Jeanroy, 391. In Wace’s description of Arthur’s wedding, the women carolent and the men behourdent. Cf. Bartsch, Romanzen und Pastourellen, i. 13:
‘Cez damoiseles i vont por caroler, cil escuier i vont por behorder, cil chevalier i vont por esgarder.’