S’espanist — ‘ s’épanouit

134. 9. The person in whose honour this pretty song was composed is uncertain. It is curious and characteristic of Malherbe that the idea and almost the words of the first two lines are borrowed from a sonnet of Du Perron’s.

14 2. 13. Brodeau, one of the school of Marot, and a clever rondeau writer.

143.ii. Thi s playful letter was written during a tour which Voiture made to Spain and the coast of Morocco. It was addressed to Mademoiselle Paulet, a famous member of the côteries of the time, who was surnamed ‘ La Lionne.’ Hence the joke. The lion which accompanied it was of red wax.

144. 2. A couplet very coarse in expression, and not necessary to the context, follows in the original.

146. 22. Words expressive of the clinking of glasses (or perhaps gaming terms ?).

14/. 1. This is the rival sonnet to Uranie^ pp. 142—3.

149. 22. In the fifth Fable of the Sixth Book, ‘Le cochet, le chat, et le souriceau.’

152. 10. The versification of the earliest French poems, the Chansons de Gestes, has a careful scansion and a regular cæsura.

13. The exactest rules of ballades and rondeaux are centuries older than Marot.