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H. F. Cary's Translation of Dante
Puragorty

Page 334 of 334

pilgrim's staff, it is not easy to guess.  I believe, however
that this name has been given to such sort of staves, because
pilgrims usually travel and perform their pilgrimages on foot,
their staves serving them instead of horses or mules, then called
bourdons and burdones, by writers in the middle ages."
Mr.  Johnes's Translation of Joinville's Memoirs.
Dissertation xv, by M.  du Cange p.  152.  4to.  edit.
The word is thrice used by Chaucer in the Romaunt of the Rose. 

End Notes to Purgatory 

End of Project Gutenberg Etext of The Divine Comedy of Dante; Purgatory 


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