Epigram 2, line 1. _Maint_ (now archaic) is a word of Teutonic origin, our _many_. Line 6. _Coulpe_=Culpam, of course; a fault. Line 9. _Emport_. Note the old subjunctive without the final e. _Vide supra_, on "_Chant_." The modern usage is incorrect. For the first conjugation making its subjunctive in _em_, should lose the final syllable in French: a post tonic _em_ always disappears. The modern habit of putting a final e to all subjunctives is due to a false analogy with verbs from the third conjugation. These made their subjunctive in _am_, a termination which properly becomes the mute e of French. TO HIS LADY IN SICKNESS. Line 4. _Sejour_=(here) "staying at home." Line 14, 15. _Friande de la bouche_, glutton. Line 17. _Danger._ The first meaning of "Danger" is simply "to be in lordship" (Dominicarium). The modern is the English "Danger." This is between the two; "held to your hurt." Line 26. _Doint._ This subjunctive should properly be _don_ (_donem_, post tonic _em_ is lost). The "oint" is from a false analogy with the fourth conjugation, as though the Latin had been _doniam_. THE VINEYARD SONG. Verse 1, line 2. _Clamours._ See how southern this is, with its Lanquedoc forms, "clamours" for "_clameurs_." Line 5. So are these diminutions all made up at random, as southern as can be, and note the tang of the verse, fit for a snapping of the fingers to mark the rapid time. Verse 3, line 2. _Benistre._ The older form of _benir_ from _Benedicere_; the _c_ between vowels at the end of the tonic syllable becomes _s_: the _t_ is added for euphony, to help one to pronounce the _s_. Line 3. _Silenus_ for _Silene_. Because the name was new, the Latin form is kept. The genius of the French, unlike that of modern English, is to absorb a foreign name (as we did once). Thus once we said "Anthony" "Tully": but Montaigne wrote "Cicero"--his descendants say "Ciceron." Line 4. _Aussi droict qu'une ligne_="right out of the flask." The flask held above one and the wine poured straight into the mouth. The happy south still know the way. Line 5. _Bigne_: a lump, a knock, a bruise. Line 6. _Guigne_=cherry. RONSARD. DIALOGUE WITH THE NINE SISTERS. Stanza 1, line 3. _Chef grison_=gray head. When he says "trente ans," that is all rubbish, he was getting on for forty-three: it was written in 1567. Stanza 2, line 1. _Nocher_=pilot; rare but hardly archaic. Stanza 3, line 3. _Cependant_=meanwhile. The word is now seldom used in prose, save in the sense of "notwithstanding", "nevertheless". Stanza 5, line 1. _Loyer_=Condition of tenure. Line 2. _Ores_=Now that. Should be "_ore_" (horam). The parasitic "s" probably crept in by false analogy with the adverbs in "s." Stanza 6, line 1. _Lame_=tombstone. The word is no longer used. Line 4. See how, even in his lighter or prosaic manner, he cannot avoid great lines.