Tandis = En attenda7it, with the subjunctive

3. prendre nos places = nous asseoir, in chairs on the stage.

4. je l’irai dire à Rome. As though Rome, the center of the Christian world, should know of ail extraordinary cases.

5. Ballet des Nations. The comedy is at an end, but not the ballet which Dorante had planned, and which the libretto shows was both danced and sung. It is in six parts. The characters in it comprise different classes of Parisians, together wlth Gascons and Swiss, who in good French and in patois demand librettos of the ballet from an employée of the theatre. This for the first part. The second part is a dance by three men. The third part consists of singing and dancing by Spaniards, the fourth by Italians, the fifth by French, and the sixth by the three nations together.