2. I. VUEIL, _veux_, HOIR = _héritier_. 5. NUL NE PORTE=_ que nul ne porte_. 6. VENT, _vend_. MARCHIÉ, _marché_. 7. TIENGNE = _tienne_. POUR TOUT VOIR = _vraiment_; _let every one consider it a certain fact_. RONDEL. For the form of the _rondel_ see the remarks on versification, p. xxi. II. AVECQUES, _avec_. 12. COMBIEN QUE = _bien que_. 17. RAPAISE = _s'apaise_. 19. TANTOST = _bientôt_; _s_ before _l, m, n_, and _t_ has regularly disappeared; cf. _vestu_, 24, _beste_, 26, _bruslerent_, 4, 26, _mesme_, 5, 22, _maistre_, 6,1. RONDEL. _"Le Temps a laissié son manteau._" 22. LAISSIÉ, _laissé_. 24. BROUDERYE, _broderie_. 25. LUYANT, _luisant_, CLER, _clair_. 3. 4. LIVRÉE could be used now in the body of the line only before a word beginning with a vowel. 6. ABILLE, _habille_. RONDEL. _"Les Fourriers d'Esté sont venus._" 13. VERT, feminine ; in adjectives of two endings of the Latin third declension, like _grandis, fortis, viridis_, the feminine ending _e_is due to the influence of adjectives of three endings, and does not appear in Old French. 16. PIEÇA = naguère._ 18. PRENEZ PAÏS, _take to the country_, i.e. depart. 19. YVER, _hiver_. 4. RONDEL. _"Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder_." 2. SÇAY, _sais_; _c_ was introduced into the forms of _savoir_ under the mistaken notion that it was connected with _scire_. 4. UNG, _un_. FRANÇOIS VILLON. 1431-146-?. Poet and vagabond, he led a most irregular life, twice narrowly escaped hanging, and composed many of his poems in prison. He was a poet of great originality, for he broke away from the conventional subjects and the allegorizing habit of the Middle Ages and gave to the lyric a personal note and a depth and poignancy of feeling that made it almost a new creation, though he still adhered mainly to the traditional forms and showed a special preference for the ballade. Most of his ballades are introduced into his main works, the _Petit Testament_ and the _Grand Testament_, which are entirely personal in contents. His works were first published in 1489; Marot prepared an edition in the following century, Paris, 1533; they were not reprinted in the seventeenth century; convenient recent editions are those of P. L. Jacob (Paul Lacroix), 1854; P. Jannet (_Nouvelle collection Jannet-Picard_) and A. Longnon, 1892. For reference: A. Longnon, _Étude biographique sur François Villon_, 1877; Sainte-Beuve, _Causeries du lundi_, vol. xiv; Th. Gautier, _les Grotesques_; J. Lemaître, _Impressions de théâtre_, troisième série, 1889 ; Robert Louis Stevenson, _Familiar Studies of Men and Books_, London, 1882.