il passe à dire = i7 en vient à dire

4. un dorique règne, etc., a Doric portico extends eUong the fronts the architecture of antiquity which came in with the Renaissance. It implies hère a new house of large proportions; see page 2, note 4.

5. pancartes, /Mif^m/^ar^j, or papers, according to a note of La Bniyère's. The social position of the deceased was given on them.

Page 42. — i, 2. Noble homme, a title assumed by burghers in légal documents. — Honorable homme, a title assumed by a still lower grade, as small shopkeepers, artisans and the like. — Messire, a title reserved for persons of quality and nobles.

3. bénéfices, church positions which were endowed, or had a revenue.

4. médailles d'or = louis cTor. (Author's note.) Page 4S» — I. dues; the editors cite in this connection Céli-

mène's characterization of an egotist in Molière s Misanthrope :

Et l'on ne donne emploi, charge ni b&éficc.

Qu'à tout ce qu'il se croit on ne fasse injustice. (11. 6x1-622.)