- "Joenne Bacheler."
NOTE 2. - "Sire, il est mon filz et vostre homme." The last word in the
sense which gives us the word homage. Thus in the miracle play of
Theophilus (13th century), the Devil says to Theophilus: -
"Or joing
Tes mains, et si devien mes hom.
Theoph. Vez ci que je vous faz hommage."
So infra (Bk. I. ch. xlvii.) Aung Khan is made to say of Chinghiz: "Il
est mon homes et mon serf." (See also Bk. II. ch. iv. note.) St. Lewis
said of the peace he had made with Henry III.: "Il m'est mout grant
honneur en la paix que je foiz au Roy d'Angleterre pour ce qu'il est mon
home, ce que n'estoit pas devant." And Joinville says with regard to the
king, "Je ne voz faire point de serement, car je n'estoie pas son home"
(being a vassal of Champagne). A famous Saturday Reviewer quotes the term
applied to a lady: "Eddeva puella homo Stigandi Archiepiscopi."
(Theatre Francais au Moyen Age, p. 145; Joinville, pp. 21, 37; S.
R., 6th September, 1873, p. 305.)
CHAPTER XV.
HOW THE EMPEROR SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS.
Now it came to pass that Marco, the son of Messer Nicolo, sped wondrously
in learning the customs of the Tartars, as well as their language, their
manner of writing, and their practice of war; in fact he came in brief
space to know several languages, and four sundry written characters.
