maître de Naples, in 1647 and

1. 10. sotis un dais. Note that in English the word dais is applied to the raised floor, and in French to the canopy which is above the floor.

1. 19. la plus belle partie âr^c, The King of Spain was master at this time of the Spanish Netherlands, a great part of Lombardy, the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in the old world ; and of great part of South America, Peru, Mexico, &c. in the new, in addition to his own kingdom of Spain.

Page 17.

{. 27. Le roi représentait Roger, a character in Ariosto's Orlando furioso.