de loin en loin, * hère and there

32. Les vitres, *the Windows.' Vitre and verre both corne from the Latin vitrum^ but the former means 'window glass,' the latter 'glass' generally, or 'a drinking glass.'

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a. œuvré, *carved.*

3. de tapisseries d'Arras, *with arras,' so called because made at Arras in Artois.

4. dans tout leur pourtour, *ali round/ literally, 'in ail their circuit.*

9. une horloge. The use of clocks of the modem kind became gênerai in the fourteenth century, but they were still expensive enough to be beyond the reach of any but the rich.

17. lianaps, 'tankards.' Hanap is an old German word hnap/, which has survived as napfy *■ a bowl.*

19. accommodée à, 'dressed with.' The datvve is always used in phrases denoting cookery, seasoning, &c. Eve § 157.

31. tiré au-dessus de la barre. The barre is the cross-bar that goes down the middle of a cask ; hence wine ' drawn above the bar ' would be from the upper half of the cask, and would be clear, without sédiment.

25. le chalumel, an old form of chalumeau^ ' the pipe,* so called because first made from a reed (Latin calamus),

le rebec. The * rebeck * was a sort of three-stringed violin, in use throughout the Middle Ages.

39. ces fourchettes. Dinner forks were invented in Italy, and first appear in France in 1379. The use of them did not become gênerai for two centuries after.

33. Personne ne prit garde. . .au, * nobody noticed. * Prendre garde à means sometimes * to notice,* sometimes * to beware of.*

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