FOOTNOTES:
[1] “Neither the bishop nor the emperor can impose upon me any tax or tribute, nor have they the power to call out the militia, except for the protection and defence of the town, and then only from cockcrow to nightfall.”
[2] “Arrivez, ou je vous brûlerai!”
[3] “Dressed like ragamuffins, with puffed trunk hose; some going barelegged with their stockings hanging to their girdle; singing as they trudge along to lighten the toil of the road.”
[4] Large-sided.
[5] Poop Guard.
[6] The principal galley of the squadron.
[7] “God wills it.”
[8] Much glory.
[9] “It happened that the king was seized with a serious illness, and was brought so low that one of the ladies who was tending him, thinking that he was dead, wished to cover his face with a cloth; while at the other side of his bed was another lady who would not permit it. But it fell out that the Lord worked within him and restored him his speech, so that the good king asked for the cross to be brought to him, which was done. And when the good lady, his mother, learned that he had recovered his speech, she was overcome with joy, but when she saw that he had assumed the cross, she was as much grieved as if she had seen him a corpse.”
[10] The investiture of knighthood.
[11] This was the night-watch kept over his armour by the candidate for admission to the order of knighthood.
[12] “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name ascribe the glory.”
[13] Bossuet’s “Histoire Universelle,” p. 101, Firmin-Didot edition.
[14] From Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” p. 15 in the French translation by Artaud de Montor.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.
4. In the Table of Illustrations, the page number for "Adoration of the Lamb" has been changed to "Frontispiece" and the image for "The Judgment Day" has been added under "J".