--_In Gyan land full haistely couth ryd._--
_A werlik toun so fand thai in that land,_
_Quhilk_ Schenown _hecht, that Inglissmen had in hand._--V. 441.
--_In_ Schynnown _still Wallace his duelling maid._--B. XI. 69.
I can find no place in Guienne, bearing any nominal resemblance.
Henry’s geography, of France especially, could not be expected to be
very accurate. He had most probably heard of _Chinon_, a village in
Touraine, near Saumur, which was indeed held by the English, and which
might be viewed as on the way from Paris to Guienne. Here Henry II. of
England died; and here, also, that singular writer Rabelais was born.