chez elle, i. e., dans son écurie

NOTES

22. passe, je t’ai vu! the words pronounced by jugglers or conjurers at the critical moment of the trick they are performing. Cf. the English: presto, change!

24. S’ils n’avaient fait que lui vcler son vin, “ if they had been satisfied with robbing her of her wine.”

27. Quiquet . . . Béluguet are the names of two of the small choir boys.

88, 4. On n’est pas pour rien la mule du Pape . . . Translate freely: “ The Pope’s mule . . . is expected to be kind.”

5. des indulgences. Indulgence here means remission by the Church of one’s sins. This was promulgated by Léo X who was pope from 1513 to 1521 and became, through the protests of Luther, the starting point of the great religious schism of the sixteenth century. Notice the anachronism, as this story is supposed to take place in the fourteenth century.