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292 Hijlory of Domejiic Manners court of Burgundy, in the fifteenth century, offered the model of fl.ri6t etiquette. This illuftration gives us alfo a very good pi6ture of a ftreet fcene of the period to which it belongs. The height of gentility, how- ever, at leaft, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, feems to have been No. 197. A Promenade Scene in the Fifteenth Century. to hold the lady by the finger only. It is in this manner that, in the romance of " Ogier le Danois," the hero holds the princefs Gloriande — Donques enma'inne le bon Danois Ogier, E Gloriande, qui par le doit le tieiit.— Roman d'Ogier, p. 110. So,
