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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

Note 1 — Chapter XXIV

Henry Yule translation

Kington’s Fred. II.

II. 457. So, in a French play of the 13th century, a publican in his

patois

invites custom, with hot bread, hot herrings, and wine of Auxerre in plenty:—

“Chaiens, fait bon disner chaiens; Chi a caut pain et caus herens, Et vin d’Aucheurre à plain tonnel.”— (Théat. Franç. au Moyen Age, 168.)

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