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in the following passage lends colour to Gaston Paris' conjecture that he was a herald as well as a poet. (25) According to the statement made at the end of the poem by the continuator of Chretien, Godefroi de Leigni, it must have been at about this point that the continuator took up the thread of the story. It is not known why Chretien dropped the poem where he did. (26) Bade = Bath. (F.) (27) The situation recalls that in "Aucassin et Nicolette", where Aucassin confined in the tower hears his sweetheart calling to him from outside. (28) The figure is, of course, taken from the game of throwing dice for high points. For an exhaustive account of dice- playing derived from old French texts, cf. Franz Semrau, "Wurfel und Wurfelspiel in alten Frankreich", "Beiheft" 23 of "Ztsch. fur romanische Philologie (Halle, 1910). (29) Alexander's horse.
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