Taylor, Edgar [Editor]; Austin, Sarah [Editor]: Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Illustr. by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe ; With histor. and crit. notes, and engravings from the ms. of the minnesingers in the king's library at Paris, and from other sources (London, 1825)

THE PAKADIS d'aMOUR, 275

They fancy time for them stands still,

And pity me my hairs of gray,
And smile to hear how once their sires

To me could kneeling homage pay.

And I, too, smile, to gaze upon

These butterflies in youth elate,
So heedless, sporting round the flame
' Where thousand such have met their fate.

THE AUTHOR OF THE PARADIS
D'AMOUR.

The " Paradis d' Amour" is a romance of the 13th
century, of which Le Grand d'Aussy published a
selected abridgement, and which Mr. Way translated
with still greater deviations from the original. Le
Grand gave only the first verse of the following song;
but M. Roquefort has published the whole, from the
MS. in the king's library, in his " Etat de la Poesie
Francoise dans les XII" & XIIF siecles." It will be
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