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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 Flè