SAGA-BOOK - Viking Society Web Publications

308 Saga-Book of the Viking Society
French texts
I
Des. CEuvres completes de Eustace Deschamps, ed. Ie
Marquis de Queux de Saint-Hilaire (S.A.T.F.,
1878-93), cited by volume, page, number of poem
and line.
II. 1-3 On the antithesis of past and present FNR p. 862
says: 'the contrasted picture of the Former Age
(Boethius, ii, m. 5) seems.. to have been in his
mind', but note the commonplace as in:
Olim res fidei, nunc umbra colitur
Olim sola fides, nunc et fraus fallitur. (AH 21/no.
179, p. 124/12thC.).
2 Florebat olim studium
nunc vertitur in tedium. (Carm. Bur., no. 6 II. 1-2).
3 quod prior etas respuit
iam nunc latius claruit. (Carm. Bur., no. 611. 37-38).
4 Strange, trewe and corteis kepte pe land
Bot now feynte, false, folis, it han vndir hand.
(PRL p. 264).
5 Manhood in pys reame hath regnyd lange
But now perfayleth ordynaunce. (CL p. 36).
6 Troupe was sumtyme here a lore!. (CB/14 no. 108
I. 49).
7 "I fordom tidh war sanningen macktig och bii1\.ll ...
men nu ar lognen vorden henne wred." (S and L
II. I and 5).
8 Les temps passe fut vertu et haultesse
Mais au jour d'ui ne voy regner que vice. (Des. V
p. 142 no. 933, end of verse 2 plus refrain).
o See also Des. V p. 147 no. 93611. 1-2,
V p. 249 no. 997,
V p. 246 no. 995,
VII p. 93 no. 1331 (in Latin).
I. 2 On the idea cf.
Hypocrisis, fraus pullulat
ct menda falsitatis
que titulum detitulat
vere simplicitatis. (Carm. Bur. nov a verse 3 II. 1-4)·
2 ffor frend is fo, pe lond is loueles. (R. Hist. no. 54
I. 44).