Cf. note line 246 as to dus and dut

200. Qu'il est, tJiat there are. This expression is constant in poetry, because U y a contains a hiatus and cannot, therefore, be employed.

208. Des Français ou de moi, the French or myself. This use of de is idiomatic in such cases of alternatives.

270. Lusignan, name of a family which furnishéd a large number of warriors for the crusades. Some of them became kings of Jérusalem. The person hère ref erred to is not altogether fictitious, as he bears some resemblance to Amaury de Lusignan, king of Jérusalem in 1197. He died 1205.

281. Pour ZaSxe=sas for Zaïre. Sans que . . . s'offense» wtthowt UÉMng ofenee at my words.

288. Que je le Teuz. that I wcmt U so. He speaks like a master who knows that his will is law.