je m'en vas gager =^je (m'en) vais gager. Pli bel

Pagre 23. — i. 11 n'est rien tel, etc., lit., < there is nothing like what one hoids'; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

2. d'avoir les dents longues, to get * mighty * hungry, as if the teeth grew long through inaction.

3. oui dire, heard (tell). Ouïr, which is now rarely used, except in the infinitive and the past participle, was in current use in the seventeenth century. Cf. oyez = * hear ye ', the imperative of ouïr, a cry used by criers of courts to secure silence before a proclamation.

4. contentement passe richesse, contentment is better than riches, Peasants are fond of adorning their speech with proverbs.

5. quarquié de Vaigne = quartier de vigne ^paltry scrap of a vineyard. QHartier=:*qu2iTteT\ and so *bit*, * pièce*. — davantage que ■=.plus que» Davantage is now regularly used only absolutely, as, // a beaucoup de livres^ mais vous en avez davantage, — oil aile (eL. ) avait . . . amiquié (amiti/)^ that she*d set her heart on,

6. Biausse =: Beauce, a flat région southwest of Paris, famous for the richness of its soil.

7. Morgue I A corruption of mordieu; cf. morgitenne^ pa^e 13, note I.