I, ii, 11. _Dijon_--the scene of the drama,--situated on the western border of the fertile plain of Burgundy, and at the confluence of the Ouche and the Suzon. It was formerly the capital of the province of Burgundy, the dukes of which acquired it early in the eleventh century, and took up their residence there in the thirteenth century. For the decoration of the palace and other monuments built by them, eminent artists were gathered from northern France and Flanders, and during this period the town became one of the great intellectual centers of France. The union of the duchy with the crown in 1477 deprived Dijon of the splendor of the ducal court, but to counterbalance this loss it was made the capital of the province and the seat of a _parlement_. To-day it possesses a population of some 65,000, and is a place of considerable importance. I, ii, 21-3. _Nor now ... that I vndertooke, forsake it._--The expression is elliptical, the verb of the preceding period being in the future indicative--whereas here the incomplete verb is in the conditional mood. In full: _Nor now ... that I undertook, would I forsake it._ I, ii, 56. _determine of--of_ is the preposition in obs. usage which follows _determine_ used, as here, in the sense of _decide_, _come to a judicial decision_, _come to a decision on_ (_upon_). Cf. IV, iv, 82. I, ii, 57. _to_--in addition to. I, ii, 66. _become_--modern editors, beginning with Mason, read _became_; but _become_ may be taken as a variant form of the past tense (or even as participle for _having become_, with nom. absolute construction, though this is less likely). I, ii, 91-2. _May force you ... plead at_--i. e. “may cause your dismissal from the bar.” I, ii, 107. _purple-colour’d_--Novall wears the official red robe of judge. I, ii, 123-4. _the subtill Fox of France, The politique Lewis_--Louis XI of France, an old enemy of Burgundy. I, ii, 127. _If that_, etc.--Gradually, as the interrogatives were recognized as relatives, the force of _that_, _so_, _as_, in “when _that_”, “when _so_”, “when _as_”, seems to have tended to make the relative more general and indefinite; “who so” being now nearly (and once quite) as indefinite as “whosoever.”... In this sense, by analogy, _that_ was attached to other words, such as “if”, “though”, “why”, etc.--Abbott, S. G. § 287. Cf. “If that rebellion Came like itself, in base and abject routs.” _Henry IV, Part_ II, IV, i, 32. The same construction appears in V, iii, 95. I, ii, 163. _Writ man_--i. e., wrote himself down as a man. I, ii, 170. _Granson_, _Morat_, _Nancy_--the “three memorable overthrows” which Charles the Bold suffered at the hands of the Swiss cantons and Duke René of Loraine. The battle of Granson took place March 3, 1476; that of Morat, June 22, 1476; that of Nancy, January 5, 1477. On each occasion the army of Charles was annihilated; and finally at Nancy he was himself slain. These defeats ended the power of Burgundy.