déclin, the last years of ray life

1. 34. Ils versent à Venvi..., they vie with one another in pouring..

1. 36. Le fromage (O. F. formage), properly something made in a form, shape or mould. L,. formaticum. "Ova manducant et yî^rwaiicH?n, id est caseum " (passage quotcd by Ducange). The transposition of the r in fromage is like that of the same letter in âpreté= âperté, from the I>. asperitatem.

amande, almond (L. amygdaluni) ; not to be confounded with ainende, a fine, compensation (liter. amends), from the L. emendare.

1- .^7- gissant, lying {\.. Jaceré), more usually speit gisant, "...la difficulté negissait pas de plaire à cette belle." {La Fontaine.)

1.38. hoTs d'hnJ<-inc,Q>\\\. oihxç'^'Ca. //ors from ihe h. /c'n's. O. F. fors. "Tout est perdu, /ûrs l'iionneur. " The permutation of A for / is likewise exemplified in the substantive hardes (clothes) = 0. ¥. fardes. " De courts fardes se vesti." {Kof>!an de Hou.)

P. 62, 1. 9. Qit' aimable est la vertu, how amiable virtue is...

1. 10. Latone, the mother of Apollo and Diana, persecuted by Tuno, found refuge in the island of Delos which Neptune brought forth from the bottom of the Grecian archipelago on purpose to receive her.