XXII.

French.

Roy & sa Cour au lieu de la langue halbe,

Dedans le Temple vis a vis du Palais,

Dans le Jardin Duc de Montor & d’Albe,

Albe & Mantor, poignard, langue, en Palais.

English.

King and his Court in the place of langue halbe,

Within the Church over against the Pallace,

In the Garden Duke of Montor and Albe,

Albe and Mantor, dagger, tongue and Pallate.

ANNOT.

This Stanza is very obscure, for, first no body can tell what he meaneth by langue halbe, which is the foundation of all the rest of the sense; Secondly, what this Duke of Montor and Mantor should be, which has been unknown in the Histories hitherto; and thirdly, what construction and sense can be made of these disjunctives: Albe, Mantor, Dagger, Tongue, Palate. Therefore i’le leave it free to every bodies opinion to make his construction.