II. de se serrer, * to sit doser

15. Tours, the chief city of Touraine, on the Loire. It has always been an important commercial town.

16. le père gardien, 'the warden.' This is the title given to the head of a Franciscan convent.

31. de porter. . .la robe de votre ordre. The révérence felt for the Franciscan order caused many laymen to wish to wear the grey frock of

the friars, especially when dying, in order to acquire some of the sanctity supposed to belong to that garb.

38. dn Bièole, 'of this world/ literally, *of the âge,' as opposed to monks, who had quitted * the world.*

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I. J'en demanderais... un, ' I would ask a faveur.* En hère refers to avantage,

3. Lequel donc? *what favour?' Hère we may understand a partitive genitive, des avantages. See Eve § 104.