si je le lui apprends. See note to p

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4. Mysoch, the name of a démon, which the woman had given to her toad.

5. Qui cela ? is elliptical, and stands really for, ' Who (is) that? ' say simply, ' Who is there?'

20. le boute-selle is really the call for saddling liorses, from an old verb bouter, ' to place,' and selle, 'saddle.' Hère, however, it evidently means ' the call to horse.'

22. Patay. On the ISth of June, 1429, the English, under Talbot, Scales, and Falstaff, were defeated by the French under Joan of Arc, Danois, and the Duke of Alençon. Talbot and Scales were taken prisoners.

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