I. En effet, 'certainly

4. Item vaoca Thomasii, cognomine 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 Thomaet not TViomasii,

19. dont les prétentions au lan^^a^e cicéronien étaient prédaément le côté faible, 'whose weakest point was his altempt at the language of Cicero.* Cicero, the greatest Roman orator, is taken as the représentative of élégant Latin.

36. de morigéner ses anciewi, * to lecture his elders.* 39. retourner, 'turn up.*

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

30. TOiiB autres, 'you fellows.* Autres is hère used pleonastîcally to distinguish the persons addressed from the speaker. See Eve §111 Obs. 3.

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

7. on écarta Jeban hors de lui, 'Jehan, wild with rage, was dra^ed off.*