[30] Ms. A (bib. nat. 835) is followed for orthography. The text is determined by a comparison of A + B, C, D + E, variant readings being noted. Except in rare cases which seemed specially interesting, orthographical variants are not noted.
[31] Cf. Michel, op. cit., t. I., 145, 6.
[32] Cf. for idea of the “Roi, qui ne ment,” T. A. Jenkins, Longer French Poems pp. 13, 143.
[33] Cf. Michel, op. cit, t. 2, p. 190 and Virgil, Bucolica, III. Eclogue, v. 92. Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fraga, Frigidus, O pueri, fugite hinc, latet anguis in herba.
[34] Michel, op. cit, t. 2, p. 182.
[35] Cf. M. Roy: Oeuvres poétiques de Christine de Pisan (in the Soc. des anc. textes franç.) t. II, p. 21 l. 650.
V.
GONTIER COL TO CHRISTINE, ASKING FOR A COPY OF NO. IV.
A prudent, honnouree et sauent damoiselle [Christine].