Sus ti coustiero souleiouso Crèis l’óulivié, l’aubre de pas, E de la vigno vertuiouso S’enourgulisson ti campas: Raço latino, en remembranço De toun destin sèmpre courous, Aubouro-te vers l’esperanço, Afrairo-te souto la Crous! Aubouro-te, raço latino, Souto la capo dóu soulèu! Lou rasin brun boui dins la tino, Lou vin de Diéu gisclara lèu! Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO LIMITED Tavistock Street, London FOOTNOTES: [1] JINGLE OF JOHN O’ THE PIG’S HEAD. Come tell me, who is dead?-- ’Tis John o’ the Pig’s Head. And who his dirge doth sing?-- Why, ’tis the Moorish King. And who laughs o’er him now? The partridge doth, I trow. Who makes a lay for him that’s gone?-- The mangle with its creaking stone. Who was it that his knell began?-- The bottom of the frying-pan. Who wears for him a mourning veil?-- The kettle’s sooty tail! [2] A legendary character renowned as a spendthrift. [3] The three tablecloths are graduated in size, commencing with the largest, and are _de rigueur_ for festal occasions. [4] For Provençal text, _see_ p. 324. [5] Poles crowned with Phrygian caps. [6] Signifying the Republic. [7] Poles crowned with Phrygian caps. [8] In the city of the Baux for a florin’s value You have an apron full of cheeses Which melt in the mouth like fine sugar. [9] The national instrument of Provence. [10] Athène du Midi. [11] Monsieur Paul Mariéton in his “Terre Provençale” says of this work: “The history of a people is contained in this book. No one can ever know what devotion, knowledge, discrimination and intuition such a work represents, undertaken and concluded as it was during the twenty best years of a poet’s life. All the words of the Oc language in its seven different dialects, each one compared with its equivalent in the Latin tongue, all the proverbs and idioms of the South together with every characteristic expression either in use or long since out of vogue, make up this incomparable Thesaurus of a tenacious language, which is no more dead to-day than it was three hundred years ago, and which is now reconquering the hearts of all the faithful.” This “Treasury of the Félibres” opens with the following lines: “O people of the South, hearken now to my words: “If thou would’st regain the lost Empire of thy speech and equip thyself anew, dig deep in this mine.” [12] The Mayor’s sash of office. [13] Mistral has glorified this legend in his _Mireille_, where the saints appear to the young girl and recount to her their Odyssey (pp. 427-437, _Mireille_).--C. E. M. [14] For Provençal text _see_ p. 324. [15] For Provençal text _see_ p. 326. [16] The elder half-brother of Frédéric Mistral inherited the Mas du Juge. [17] A well-known poet and writer of Nîmes, author of a small poem regarded as a classic in France: “L’Ange et l’Enfant.” [18] For Provençal text _see_ p. 329.