ACT I— SCENE

(N.B. — In French plays, the division into "scènes" indicates the entrance or exit of" a character, and nota, change of scenery.)

Le Plessis, a nanie common to many French villages (probably frorr. "plexitium", hedge, enclosure; Lat. plecto, plexum, to weave). This one is Plessis-lès-Tours, at a short distance from Tours, an important town on the Loire. The word lès (or lez), from Latin noun lattis, side, was an old préposition meaning near to.

Page 6, 1. i. aux abois, "at bay ", i.e. on the point of death.