bouts rimes, rhymes given as conclusion of verses to be

filled out.

4. Cyrus. Cinq-Mars, who was beheaded in 1642, must hâve found it difficult to read Mlle, de Scudéry*s Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus ^ which was not published till 1649I

Pagre 84. — i. Saint-Germain, one of the abodes of royalty, a few miles from Paris.

2. place Royale, now place des Vosges y in the quartier du Marais.

3. ruelles, lady's sélect gathering or circle ; corresponds to the more modem institution known as a salon,

4. petit Jean de Saintré. The novel of Le petit Jehan de Saintré et la dame des belles cousines, by Antoine de la Salle (f ifteenth century), describes the love of a young squire for a fair lady more versed than himself in the ways of the world.