Scène V

75, 1. ^renées, ungovernable, unbridled, lawless.

76, 1. Gibiers de bourreau, gallows birds.

2. J'ai vu Sforce, etc. The house of Sforza ruled at Milan during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

8. Borgia, an Italian family unfortunately celebrated in history for the crimes of many of its members. Two Popes Calixlus III. (Alfonso Borgia, d. 1458), and Alexander VI. (Bodrigo Lenzuoli Borgia, U3M503, nephew of Calixtus), belonged to it.

77, 1. Sœur du festin des Sept- Têtes. The tragic end of the

seven lords of Lara forms the subject about thirty of the most beautiful ballads in Spanish littérature. See Lockart's "Spanish Ballads," and Ticknor's «* History of Spanish Literature."

78, 1. Avec un gros d'archers, with a detachment of archers.