4. BALLADE DES DAMES DU TEMPS JADIS. Dante Gabriel Rossetti has translated this ballade, which is perhaps the most famous one in the language. 6. DICTES, _dites_, n'en = _ni en _; in Old French _ne_ could be used for the simple alternative 'or.' 7. FLORA; a late tradition made of the Roman goddess of flowers and spring a wealthy and beautiful woman. 8. ARCHIPIDIA, perhaps Hipparchia is meant; THAIS, an Athenian beauty of the fourth century B.C. 10. ECHO, the nymph of classical mythology. MAINE, _mène_. 11. ESTAN, _étang_. 13. ANTAN, _last year_ (from Latin _ante annum_); Rossetti translates "yesteryear". 14. HELOÏS, Heloise, or Eloise. 16. ESBAILLART, Abelard (1079-1142), a French scholar and philosopher, whose love for the beautiful and accomplished Heloise, one of his pupils, has passed into legend, which has quite transformed the fact. SAINCT-DENYS, Saint-Denis, only four and one half miles from Paris, celebrated for the cathedral of Saint-Denis in which are the tombs of the kings of France. Abelard resided for a time in the abbey of Saint-Denis. 17. ESSOYNE = _peine_. 18. ROYNE, _reine_; Marguerite de Bourgogne, wife of Louis le Hutin, is meant, the heroine of the legend of the Tour de Nesle, according to which she had her numerous lovers killed and thrown into the Seine. Buridan was more fortunate and escaped; he was afterwards a learned professor of the University of Paris. She herself was strangled in prison in 1314. 21. LA ROYNE BLANCHE, Blanche de Castille, mother of Saint Louis. 22. SEREINE, _sirène_. 23. BERTHE AU GRAND PIED, celebrated in the _chansons de geste_, was the mother of Charlemagne. BIETRIS, Beatrix de Provence, married in 1245 to Charles, son of Louis VIII. ALLYS, Alix de Champagne, married in 1160 to Louis le Jeune. 24. HAREMBOURGES, Eremburge, daughter of Elie de la Flèche, count of Maine, who died in 1110. 25. JEHANNE, Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake at Rouen in 1431. 5. 1. N'ENQUEREZ, _do not seek to know_. SEPMAINE,_semaine_. 3. QUE ... NE, _lest_. REMAINE = _reste_. LAY ou PLUSTOST RONDEAU. 8. SE, _si_. 12. DEVIE = _meure_. 13. VOIRE = _vraiment_. JE CONNAIS TOUT FORS QUE MOI-MEME. 15. LAICT. _lait_. 21. BESONGNE = _travaille_. CHOMME, _chôme_. 24. GONNE, _gown_, a monk's garment. 6. 3. PIPEUR, one who whistles in imitation of birds ; _je congnois pipeur qui jargonne, I know the tricks of the bird-catcher_. 4. FOLZ NOURRIZ DE CRESME, refers perhaps to the pampered court jesters. 7. MULLET, _mulet_. 10. GECT, a counter for counting and adding (_qui nombre et somme_). 12. BOESMES, _Bohemians_; _la faults des Boesmes_ is the heresy of the followers of John Huss (1369- 1415) and Jerome of Prague (1375-1416). 16. COULEREZ ET BLESMES = _teints colorés et blêmes_» CLEMENT MAROT. 1497-1544.