[Footnote 16: For detailed illustration of the word, see 'Val d'Arno,' Lecture VIII.; 'Fors Clavigera,' Letters XLVI. 231, LXXVII. 137; and Chaucer, 'Romaunt of Rose,' 1212--"Next _him_" (the knight sibbe to Arthur) "daunced dame Franchise;"--the English lines are quoted and commented on in the first lecture of 'Ariadne Florentina'; I give the French here:-- "Apres tous ceulx estoit Franchise Que ne fut ne brune ne bise. Ains fut comme la neige blanche _Courtoyse_ estoit, _joyeuse_, et _franche_. Le nez avoit long et tretis, Yeulx vers, riants; sourcilz faitis; Les cheveulx eut tres-blons et longs Simple fut comme les coulons Le coeur eut doulx et debonnaire. _Elle n'osait dire ne faire Nulle riens que faire ne deust._" And I hope my girl readers will never more confuse Franchise with 'Liberty.'] 29. Best of servants: best of _subjects_, also, when they have an equally frank King, or Count, or Captal, to lead them; of which we shall see proof enough in due time;--but, instantly, note this farther, that, whatever side-gleam of the thing they afterwards called Liberty may be meant by the Frank name, you must at once now, and always in future, guard yourself from confusing their Liberties with their Activities. What the temper of the army may be towards its chief, is _one_ question--whether either chief or army can be kept six months quiet,--another, and a totally different one. That they must either be fighting somebody or going somewhere, else, their life isn't worth living to them; the activity and mercurial flashing and flickering hither and thither, which in the soul of it is set neither on war nor rapine, but only on change of place, mood--tense, and tension;--which never needs to see its spurs in the dish, but has them always bright, and on, and would ever choose rather to ride fasting than sit feasting,--this childlike dread of being put in a corner, and continual want of something to do, is to be watched by us with wondering sympathy in all its sometimes splendid, but too often unlucky or disastrous consequences to the nation itself as well as to its neighbours.