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phylogeny, but merely a relic of the original form of the
Cycle which dealt with the feud between Isegrim and
Reynard, and connected all the other beast actors by ties of
relationship with the protagonists.

P. 9. Hat fluitch of bacon. A reference to an episode
contained in fen. br. V.

P. 10. Malepardus. In Ren. Malpertius. In ein.
Ubelloch. Probably Maupertius in Champagne.

P. 11. Chanticleer. Familiar to us in Chaucer’s use of
the name in his Wonne Preestes Tale. Occurs in Rein. as
Schantecler. It is, obviously, a French descriptive term
for the ‘clear singing’ cock.

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Chanticleer’s Plaint. ez. dr. I1., Caxton, chap. v. For
the sources, see Sudre, chap. iv., section 1.

P. 12. Zantart, Cragant. In Reyn. Cantaert, craiant.

Copple. A diminutive of Coppe of eyx. Grimm
compares the English ‘copped hen’ (Ree. Fuchs, ccxxxviii.)
Chaucer calls Chanticleer’s wife, Pertelote, whence the
Shakespearian name, Partlet (1 King Henry IV., Act iit.
sc. 3; Winter's Tale, Act ii. se. 3).

P. 14. Had made peace, derived from the A%sopic
fable of ‘Fox, Cock, and Dog’ (see Jacob’s sof,
Cranford edition, lix., and note, p. 214).

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Continuation of Chanticleer’s Plaint (see chap. iii.).

P. 19. Placebo. An anthem used in the office for the
dead, and beginning with 2s. Vulg. cxiv. 9.

P. 20. Bruin. In Rein. Brune. In Rex. Bruns. In