Crossword-Solution: CIL 3 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Gower, "Le Mirour de l'omme, 22, 813 ff.: "Rois est des femmes trop decu, Qant plus les ayme que son dieu, Dont laist honour pour foldelit: Cil Rois ne serra pas cremu, Q'ensi voet laisser sou escu Et querre le bataille ou lit."] [Footnote 127: This brusque command, implying so sudden a change in Erec's attitude toward his wife, initiates a long series of tests of Enide's devotion, which fill the rest of the romance.

Car, se Maistre Blihis ne ment Nus ne doit dire le secré."[1] "Mais la mervelle qu'il trova Dont maintes fois s'espoenta Ne doit nus hom conter ne dire Cil ki le dist en a grant ire Car c'est li signes del Graal (other texts secrés) S'en puet avoir et paine et mal (Li fet grant pechié et grant mal) Cil qui s'entremet del conter Fors ensi com it doit aler."[2] The above refers to Gawain's adventure at the Black Chapel, en route for the Grail Castle.

Cil poroit deI Graal parler, Et la mervelle raconter, Que nus hom nel poroit oďr Que il ne l'estuece fremir Trambler et remuer color, Et empalir de la paour.'"[3] From this evidence there is no doubt that to the romance writers the Grail was something secret, mysterious and awful, the exact knowledge of which was reserved to a select few, and which was only to be spoken of with bated breath, and a careful regard to strict accuracy.

Think of Cilèa's "Tilda," Giordano's "Mala Vita," Spinelli's "A Basso Porto," and Tasca's "A Santa Lucia!" The stories chosen for operatic treatment by the champions of verismo are all alike.

This was Francesco Cilèa's "Adriana Lecouvreur," which was brought forward on the opening night of the season, and had one repetition afterward, notwithstanding that it had been incorporated in the repertory to give Signor Caruso an opportunity to appear in a new work together with Mme.