décacheté, open [lit. unsealed, from cachet = seal

See note on p. 2, 1. 19, and state why décacheté is not spelt alike in this and the following Une of the text.

5. et moi qui, and I who. 'Down to the end of the thirteenth century the declension of the personal pronouns in two cases was carefuUy followed : je, ego; tu, tu; il, ille, expressed the subject only: me, me ; te, te ; le, illum, the direct object : moi, mihi, mi ; toi, tibi ; lui, illi, the indirect object. Modem Frencli (by too strict an adhérence to the rule requiring conjunctive pronouns to be directly connected with the verb) says, moi qui lis, toi qui chantes, lui qui vient, using the object for the subject ; but old French said correctly (retaining to the subject pronoun its real character) je qui lis, ego qui lego ; tu qui chantes, tu qui cantas ; il qui vient, ille qiii venit, etc. There is a fragment of the ancient use in the commercial phrase. Je soussigné, déclare,' etc. (Brachet's Historical French Grammar, p. 120).