And daily does the work he chose,
And counts all else impertinence!
EXPLICIT DECAS REGINARUM
FOOTNOTES
1. For this perplexing matter the curious may consult Paul Verville’s Notice sur la vie de Nicolas de Caen, p. 93 et seq. The indebtedness to Antoine Riczi is, of course, conceded by Nicolas in his “EPILOGUE.” [(Return)]
2. She was the daughter of King Ferdinand of Leon and Castile, whose conversion to sainthood the inquisitive may find recorded elsewhere. [(Return)]
3. Not without indulgence in anachronism. But Nicolas, be it repeated, was no Gradgrindian. [(Return)]
4. Nicolas gives this ballad in full, but, for obvious reasons, his translator would prefer to do otherwise. [(Return)]
5. Nicolas unaccountably omits to mention that during the French wars she had ruled England as Regent with signal capacity,—although this fact, as you will see more lately, is the pivot of his chronicle. [(Return)]