CHAPTER IV

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Prose novelettes of the thirteenth century: _Aucassin et Nicolette_ not quite typical--_L'Empereur Constant_ more so--_Le Roi Flore et la Belle Jehane_--_La Comtesse de Ponthieu_--Those of the fourteenth: _Asseneth_--_Troilus_--_Foulques Fitzwarin_--Something on these--And on the short story generally.

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