Ixmrdon, *the pilgrim's staff

94. bien en peine de moi, 'sorely anxious about me. * The genitive follows adjectives denoting feeling, and dénotes the object of the feeling. See Eve § 123.

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91. les litières, 'litters' in which ladies and those unable to ride were carried. Thèse litters were borne sometimes by men, but often by horses or mules.

28. au Palais, the Palais de Justice, formerly the résidence of the Kings of France, but given over to the lawyers of the Parlement by Charles VII, in whose reign this story is laid.

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9. 'bedeaux, 'vergers/ employed in churches. Our parish *beadle' had the same origin for his name, but his functions were more important.

chantres, 'singers.' The chantre was appointed to chant or intone the service, like a modem * lay-clerk.'