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- 383, and the Recueil complet des Fabliaux, Paris, 1878, vol. - "The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.)", Margaret, Queen Of Navarre.
- The view of the lake of Bienne, some music of Rossini's, the Madonna of Murillo's now in the possession of General Soult, Lescombat's letters, a few sayings scattered through collections of anecdotes; but most of all the prayers of religious ecstatics, and passages in our fabliaux,- these things alone have power to carry me back to the divine heights of my first love. - "The Magic Skin", Honore de Balzac.
- And as for the licentiousness of their poetry- which has been alleged as proof of their profligacy- I can only say, that it is no more licentious than the fabliaux of their French conquerors, while it is far more delicate and refined. - "Prose Idylls", Charles Kingsley.