à la harbe de, 'in the teeth of

472-5. Je ii*avals . . . Tépée, ' I had nothing in the world but my cloak and sword ' ; cape^ ' military cloak.' This idiom is aiso used of the poor aristocracy, who hâve nothing but their nobility.

475. n n'aTait, ma foi ! pas tort, ' He certainly was not wrong.' Ha fol, concessive hère.

476. endosser, ' to don ' from en^ and dos^ m., ' back ' (Lat dorsum^ neut. ).