Troubadour Tales
Troubadour Tales
By Evaleen Stein
With Illustrations
By Virginia Keep
Maxfield Parrish
B. Rosenmeyer &
Edward Edwards
Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
Copyright 1903
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
July
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
To My Mother
Troubadour Tales
THE PAGE OF COUNT REYNAURD
HOW HE EARNED THE FAVOR OF KING RENÉ AND
WON A SILVER CUP FOR CLEVERNESS
IN THE LATIN TONGUE
“Pierrot! Pierrot! are thy saddle-bagswell fastened? And how fare my lutestrings?Have a care lest some of them snap with joggingover this rough bit of road. And, Pierrot,next time we pass a fine periwinkle thou hadstbest jump down and pluck a fresh bunch for myBarbo’s ears.”
The speaker, Count Reynaurd of Poitiers,patted the fluffy black mane of his horse Barbo,and loosened the great nosegay of blue flowers[2]tucked into his harness and nodding behind hisears. Barbo was gaily decked out; long spraysof myrtle dangled from his saddle-bow, and awreath of periwinkle and violets hung roundhis neck; for the Count Reynaurd was not onlya noble lord,