le cortège, the procession, from the Ital. corteggio

1. 36. ces amusements grossiers. Allusion to the mysteries or miracle-plays so frequenlly performed throughout Europe during the middie âges.

P. iS, 1. 6. comme Eschyle; in the Persœ, a tragedy composed by the poet ^schylus (B. C. 525—456).

1. 20. elle use la force.. Xl vvears eut brute force. In the old French the verb user vvas often employed transilively in the sensé of to make use of, vvhen we should now say user de; thus:

" Mille autres caresses

Qu'usent à leurs amants les plus douces maîtresses." [Régnier.)

1. 22. désormais, henceforth (O. F. dès ore mais). Ore, is from the L. hora ; mais from the L. magis. Dès ore mais means properly from. this hoicr forivard.

1. 35. Nicolas V. {Thomas Parentncelli), pope from 1447 to 1455, considerably augmented the Vatican library.

P. 19, 1. 21. bulle (L. huila), name given to the Papal letters patent, from the little bail of métal appended to them.