2 adjectives to describe gist

It is rather odd how obstinately life clings to the most hackneyed trick of ballad-makers; and still naively pretends to enrich her productions by the stale device of introducing a refrainso that the idlest remarks of as much as three years ago keep cropping up as the actual gist of the present!...

On the third scroll is written: "En toy qui es Fitz de Dieu le Pere, Saufve soit qui gist sours cest Pierre.

2 adjectives to describe  gist