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94 11 aux portières: 'at the door Windows', cf. note to 94 9. 94 13 détalait: cf. note to 69 15. The stones which cover this plain are fabled to have been showered down by Jupiter to aid Hercules in his battle with the giant Albion. lui tenant pied: 'keeping up with it. 94 15 rencoigna: an old spelling of rencogna. The word is etymologically connected with coin; cf.
55 10 s'en allait: for allait, cf. note to 17 4. 55 13 M'sieu: indicates by the spelling the usual pronunciation of Monsieur. 55 15 Après? 'Well, what have you to say? 55 25 algarade: a word borrowed from the Spanish, the root being Arabic. It was originally a military expression meaning a raid, but now is used more or less jocularly for a wordy attack. Transl. 'dispute.
46 11 De guerre lasse: for de guerre las 'tired of struggling. Final s was pronounced in Old French, after it was no longer pronounced in most words it still continued to be sounded in las in the expression de guerre las because of the presence of the feminine guerre whence the erroneous spelling lasse. 46 12 dessus: adverb, cf. note to 1 6.
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