posted in the game and rules. Some colleges re fuse to play unless this is positively the case, and in so doing they lose nothing and often escape a great deal of mischief. It is hoped that next sea son's management will prove as successful finan cially as the one just over ; will escape with fewer cancelled games and make every effort to have the officials men of integrity and selected before the game. BEI?TRAND DE BORN: In the XXVIIIth Canto of the Inferno, Dante enters the region "Where is Paid the fee by those who sowing discord, win their burden," and sud denly sees a sight so awful that he is almost afraid to recount it. "I truly saw, and yet I seem to see It, A trunk without a head walk in like manner As walked the others of that mournful herd. And by the hair it held the head dissevered, Hung from the hand in fashion of a lantern,, Holding up the head and turning it toward Dan te he announces himself as Bertrand de Born ; the gifted and turbulent troubadour of the Xllth century, alike skilled with pen and sword, who passed his life in singing and in fighting, but es pecially in stirring up strife among his neighbors. And because he was always disturbing the peace and calling up war, and because he parted father and son and set them at enmity with one another,• he is condemned . forevermore to carry his head parted from his body. The earliest record of this famous" poet and warrior is given in his native Provencal, in Ray nouird's selections of Original Poetry of the Troubadours. The old chronicle says :—"Ber trand de Born was a chatelein of the bishopric of P'erigueux, Vis&mmt of Hauteford, a castle with nearly a thousand retainers. He had a brother whom he would have driven from his inheritance had it not been for the king of England. He was always at war with all his neighbors, etc. He was a good cavalier, a good warrior, a , good. lover, THE FREE LANCE. and a good troubadour; and well-informed 'and spoken; and knew well how to bear good and evil fortune. And he always wished that the king of France and the king of England should be at variance ; and if there were either peace or truce, straightway he sought and endeavored by his satires to undo thti peace and to show how each was dishonored by it. And he had great advantages and great misfortunes by thus exciting feuds between them. He wrote many satires but only two songs. And he set his whole heart on fomenting war ; and embroiled the father and son of England until the young king was killed by an arrow in a castle of Bertrand de Born." We get an interesting side-light upon the poet and upon the entire age in which he lived in read ing English history. It will be remembered that Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine, adding thereby a large part of the south of France to his crown. He had four sons, all of whom were more or less rebellious against him. The oldest was Henry, surnamed Curt Mantle, and called by the novelists the Young King, because he was crowned in his father's lifetime ; the sec ond was the famous Richard Coeur de Lion; the third, Goeffrey duke of Brittany, and the last John named Lackland. Bertrand was on intimate terms with all of them, but especially with Henry of whom he always speaks in his poems as the Young King, sometimes praising him and some times reproving him. It was to him that, he "gave the evil counsels" embroiling him with his father and his brothers.; and one of the best of his poems is his Lament for the Young English King, given below in close translation of the Provencal original as given in Stimming's "Ber trand de Born, sein Leben and seine Werke," Halle, 1879. He had pet names for the three princes above named, calling the Count of Brit tany, Kassa; and the king of England, Yes and No ; as a satire on his vacillation: and his son, the young king, Marinier. His devotion to a e memory of the latter obtained the angry father's
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