hors de cause, removed from discussion

918. du code pseudo- Aristotélique, of the so-called Aristotelian code. The rigid rule of the three unities of time, place, and action, generally attributed to Aristotle, was only partially due to his doctrines, much of its rigidity being the result of modern interpretation and adaptation.

926. cette antichambre, a reference to the fixed scenery of the classic stage.

932. Altemis cantemns; amant alterna Camen». In place of cantemus a more common reading for this passage is dicetis. Translating it as it stands ; Let us sing in ^alternate verses; the muses îcve altemate verses. Third Eclogue, line 59, of VergiPs Bucolics.

035. en font bon marclié, pay little attention to that. 946. Bouyentes fols, or souyentefols, old form of souvent 952. Melpomône, the Muse presiding over tragedy. 968. coçditionB d'être, conditions of existence.

978. Bizzio . . . Marie Stuart. Hizzio was one of the favorites of Mary, Queen of Scots and became her secretary. Darnley, the Queen's second husband, being jealous of his influence, had him assassinated in the Queen's presence in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, in 1566.

979. Henry IV. was killed by Ravaillac in 1610 in this rue de la Ferronnerie^ which still exists, a few steps southeast of the Halles Centrales^ or Central Market in Paris.

981. Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake in the Old Market at Rouen, May 30, 1431.

983. BloiB, about 150 miles southeast of Paris, where the Duke of Guise was killed by order of Henry III. during a meeting of the States General in 1588.

985. Gharles I", see note on 1. 864; Louis XVI. guillotined in