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

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I. <iuittaiti Note the imperfect^ as the action is spread over the whole joumey.

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

4. boisseUers, * tumers/ makers of wooden bushel measures and other household utensils.

6. oonlMres de la Passion. The *mysteries' and * moralities,'

plays from sacred history, or introducing allegorical persons, were acted by guilds or brotherhoods of players, of which the Cmfrhres <U la Passion were one of the most famous.

la. Péché mortel, 'Deadly sin.'

12. Bonitos et vacaum, eed praterea nihil, 'sounding emptiness and nought beside.' A variation on the well-known phrase *vox et praeterea nihil,' used of the nightingale, and translated from Plutarch's Apophthtgmata Laconica, 13.

a8. partIsanB, 'partisans' or irregular troops, often little better than brigands.

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«. routleni, *plunderers.' The routiers were the dîsbanded roercenary soldiers who lived by robbery.

4. la vie de bohémleiiB, 'the gipsy life.' Hère the possessive genitive, without the article, is used as an adjective denoting quality. See Eve § 134, Obs. 3.

la. n s'en prit alors au, * he then tumed to.*

14. Bll en venait à cette extrémité, ' if he went so far.' Hère en venir is used with a sensé of hosHlity. See Eve § 143 (3).

21, le nouvel art venu d'Allemagne, the art of printing, supposed to hâve been invented about 1440 dther in Holland or in Germany.