I . En effet, ' certainly

4. Item vaoca Thomasil, cognomlne BubrL *Item, the cow of Thomas, sumamed Lerouge.* A manorial steward in the Middle Ages kept his accounts in Latin. But the correct Latin would hâve been Thomae^ not Thomasii.

19. dont les prétentions an langaere doéronlen étalent précisément le côté faible, 'whose weakest point was his attempt at the language of Cicero. ' Cicero, the greatest Roman orator, is taken as the représentative of élégant Latin.

26. de morigéner ses anciens, * to lecture his elders.' 99. retourner, *tum up.*

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tirer la clutirue, literally *to drag the plough/ and hence 'to toil for a living.'

50. TOiu autres, *you fellows.' Autres is hère used pleonastically to distinguish the persons addressed from the speaker. See Eve § m Obs. a.

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6. lienrensement que, ' fortunately.* The adverb hère stands instead of a sentence, such as ce fut heureux^ on which que dépends.

7. on écarta Jehan liors de Inl, 'Jehan, wild with rage, was dragged off.'