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)

CHRISTINE DE PISAN. 279

Now Heaven conduct thee safely on,

According to thy will ;
One boon alone I ask of thee,

Wound—but forbear to kill.
And where then goest thou, gentle sigh,

Passing so softly by ?

CHRISTINE DE PISAN.

Ix may be said that both this lady, and Charles
duke of Orleans, who is noticed next, belong to a
period rather later than the one which this volume
purports to illustrate. Some license will, however,
be taken on this occasion ; and it is assumed with the
less ceremony, because the works of neither of these
poets have ever been printed, we believe, except in a
few extracts, (such as those contained in the second
volume of " Les Poetes Francois depuis le XIP siecle
jusqu'a. Malherbe,") and because we should otherwise
wholly fail in what we promised (p. 81), under the
expectation of much more extensive MS. research in
this department. Our selections from Christine de
Pisan are taken from a very fine richly illuminated