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Saint Louis. Louis IX

6. Henri VII. James IV of Scotland married Margaret, daughter of Hen/y VII. Their son, James V, was father of Mary, Queen of Scots, the mother of James VI, who became James I of England.

Page 13 * — 1. sauv6. The editors see in this sentence an allusion to Virgil's

“ Si Pergama dextra

Defendi possent, etiam hac defensa fuissent.”

(Aeneid II, 291, 292.)

2. depuis douze sifecles, etc. Already emphasized in the sermon, Sur les Devoirs des Rois .

Page 14 * — 1. les nuages, etc. A discreet allusion to Charles’ dismissal of the French priests and ladies-in-waiting, who had accompanied his bride to England.

2. amour mutuelle. Both genders for the singular are found in the seventeenth century. See amour conjugal on page 13, line 24.

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