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[320] Gautier, _Œuvres poétiques d’Adam de Saint-Victor_, i. 174.

[321] Gautier, _o.c._ 3rd edition, p. 87.

[322] Gautier, _o.c._ 1st edition, i. 201.

[323] Did the Sequence exert an influence upon Hrotsvitha, the tiresome but unquestionably immortal nun of Gandersheim, who flourished in the middle and latter part of the tenth century? She wrote narrative poems, like the _Gesta Ottonis_ (Otto I.) in leonine hexameters. Her pentameter lines also commonly have a word in the middle rhyming with the last syllable of the line. But it is in those famous pious plays of hers, formed after the models of Terence, that we may look for a kind of writing corresponding to that which was to progress to clearer form in the Sequence. Without discussing to what extent the Latin of these plays may be called rhythmical, one or two things are clear. It is filled with assonances and rude rhymes, usually of one syllable. It has no clear verse-structure, and the utterances of the _dramatis personae_ apparently observe no regularity in the number of syllables, such as lines of verse require.

[324] For these and other songs, written after the manner of Sequences, see Du Meril, _Poésies pop. lat._ i. p. 273 _sqq._ They are also printed by Piper in _Nachträge zur älteren deutschen Lit._ (Deutsche Nat. Lit.) p. 206 _sqq._ and p. 234 _sqq._ See also W. Meyer, _Fragmenta Burana_, p. 174 _sqq._ and Ebert, _Allgemeine Gesch. etc._ ii. 343 _sqq._

[325] Du Meril, _ibid._ i. p. 285.

[326] Wil. Meyer, _Fragmenta Burana_, p. 180.

[327] The best text of the “Phillidis et Florae altercatio” is Hauréau’s in _Notices et extraits_, 32 (1), p. 259 _sqq._ The same article has some other disputes or _causae_, e.g. _causa pauperis scholaris cum presbytero_, p. 289.

[328] Du Meril, _Poésies pop. lat._ ii. p. 108 _sqq._ The piece is a cento, and its tone changes and becomes brutal further on. The poems, from which are taken the preceding citations, are to be found in Wright’s _Latin Poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes_ (London, 1841, Camden Society); _Carmina Burana_, ed. J. A. Schmeller; “Gedichte auf K. Friedrich I. (archipoeta),” in vol. iii. of Grimm’s _Kleinere Schriften_. Cf. also Hubatsch, _Die lateinischen Vagantenlieder_ (Gorlitz, 1870). The best texts of many of these and other “Carmina Burana,” and such like poems, are to be found in the contributions of Hauréau to the _Notices et extraits, etc._; especially in tome 29 (2), pp. 231-368; tome 31 (1), p. 51 _sqq._

[329] _Ante_, Vol. I., p. 145.

[330] _Ante_,