36. Ballade. Dame des cieulx. I. 2. paluz, marshes. 9. jungleresse, liar.

II. 3. Egipcienne, St. Mary of Egypt. For many centuries there was a chapel in Paris dedicated to her. 4. Théophilus, of Cilicia. Sold his soul to the devil and was redeemed by St. Mary. The learned Saxon nun Hroswitha wrote his history in the tenth century.

III. 4. luz, lutes.

37. Ballade de bonne doctrine ... I. I. porteur de bulles, pardoner, bearer of a papal bull of indulgence. Infested Europe in the XIVth & XVth centuries; usually an impostor (cf. Chaucer, Cant. Ts.) 2. pipeur, swindler at dice. II. 2. fainctif, deceiver. 3. farce, play farces, broulle, practise sorcery. 6. berlanc, game of tables. glic, cardgame. quilles, skittles. Envoi, I. esguilletez, ornamented with points. 2. drappilles, clothes.

38. L'Epitaphe. II. 9. ame ne nous harie, let no one torment us.

III. 8. dez à couldre, `thimbles for sewing.'

40. Grant Testament, clxiii-clxv. I. I. Saincte-Avoye, seat of a community of nuns in the Rue du Temple. 8. greveroit le plancher: M. Longnon explains this by saying that the chapel of the nuns was on the first floor.

III. 2. raillon, bolt of an arbalest.

41. Rondeau. Repos eternel ... 3. escuelle, bowl. 5. rez, cropped.

Marguerite de Valois . Queen of Navarre, sister of François Ier. Born at Angoulême. Author of the Heptameron.

[Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses, 1547. Dernières poésies de la Reine de Navarre. A. Lefranc, Paris, 1896.]

Clément Marot . Born at Cahors; son of Jean Marot, Norman poet. Valet-de-chambre to Marguerite de Valois. Edited Villon. He was implicated in the Protestant movement and had to leave Paris. He stayed at Ferrara, and at Geneva, where he fell under the ban of Calvin's displeasure. He died at Turin.

[OEuvres de Clément Marot, ed. by Niort, 1596. OEuvres de Clément Marot, avec les ouvrages de Jean Marot, etc., 6 t., La Haye, 1731.]

49. Changeons propos. III. 5. bigne, a bruise.

50. Le Lieutenant criminel et Samblançay. Samblançay, superintendent of finances under Charles VIII, Louis X, and François Ier, was falsely accused by Louise de Savoie of having agreed with her to embezzle the pay of certain troops. He was condemned to death and executed during the king's absence. His innocence was afterwards publicly recognized.

Mellin de Saint Gelais . Born in Angoulême. Resisted the influence of the Pléiade.

Ronsard . Born at La Poissonnière in the Vendômois. Page to the Dauphin François and to Charles Duc d'Orléans. At the age of twelve went with Madeleine of France to Scotland. Travelled in England, Flanders, Germany (with Lazare de Baïf), and Italy (with Guillaume du Bellay). His deafness made him turn from courtly to literary life. In 1548 he met Du Bellay at an inn in the Touraine. With certain friends they formed the famous brotherhood which was at first called la docte Brigade, and afterwards la Pléiade. It consisted originally of seven members -- Ronsard, Du Bellay, Baïf, Belleau, Jodelle, Daurat, and Pontus de Tyard. Previously, Ronsard spent five years in the enthusiastic and incessant study of classical literature, his master being the great scholar Daurat, and his fellow pupil Antoine de Baïf. After the death of Charles IX he retired from the Court to his Priory of St. Cosme, near Tours. He died there in 1585.