Scène VIL

150X. tôt =^ bientôt. In like manner we find tôt apris where we ^QyjXà.iioyf say bientôt après:

" La reine a3rant appris cette triste nouvelle, En reçut tôt après une autre plus cruelle.*'

{Rodogune^ i. 4.)

1506. en BeUecour. See above, IL 1093, 1393.

1508. massacrait is put hère instead of tuait by a kind of burlesque exag^eration.

15 14. Et leur donne souvent de dangereux paquets^ and often plays upon them dangerous tricks.

The Dictionnaire de V Académie gives donner un paquet as the équivalent oî faire une malice,

1518. (un) temps couvert y cloudy weather.

15 19. tu donnes une bourde (etym. fr. Old French Behourde or Behourtf a lance used in a toumament ; hence, says Schéler (Dictionn, £tym,), to joust, to tilt, and by extension, to play, to sport, to jest), you are laughing at us. Comp. Shakespeare :

** How could'st thou know thèse men in Kendal green, when it was so dark thou could'st not see thy hand?" (A^. Henry IV. part i.)

1521. Citait fait, it was ail over. L. actum erat,

1522. sentant du secours, perceiving that there was some help at hand. In the old French, sentir was used as the synonym of connattre, entendre, and even voir,

1523. jouant des talons— s^ enfuyant, running away.