c'est trop attendre, * I can wait no longer

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I. quittait. Note the imper/ect, as the action is spread over the whole joumey.

3. forêt de Bondi, or Bondy, a few miles east of Paris, and long notorious as a haunt of robbers.

4. boisseliers, * turners,' makers of wooden bushel measures an(ï other household utensils.

6. confrères de la Passion. The 'mysteries' and * moralitics,'

plays from sacred history, or introducing allegorical persons, were acted by guilds or brotherhoods of players, of which the Confrh'es de la Passion were one of the most famous.

1 2 . Péché mortel, ' Deadly sin. '

22. SonltuB et yacuuin, sed prssterea v\\\\\ *soundmg emptiness and nought beside.* A variation on the well-known phrase *vox et praeterea nihil,' used of the nightingale, and translated from Plutarch's Apophthegmata Laconica^ 15.

28. partisaiiB, * partisans' or irregular troops, often little better than brigands.

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4. xoutlen, *plunderers.' The rauHers were the disbanded mercenary soldiers who lived by robbery.

4. la vie de lK>liémiexis, *the gipsy life.* Hère the possessive genitive, without the article, is used as an adjective denoting quality. See Eve § 124, Obs. 3.