5: fût-on altesse, etc. «even a Royal Majesty cannot get a king by a countess.»
6: C'est ce que nous disons, etc. «That is what we often say in your Highness' antechamber.»
7: Cependant que for pendant que.
8: mon peuple, «my servants». It is barely possible that the king means to return Don Sancho's compliment goodnaturedly, but more probably he says this to show him his place.
9: Poussez au drôle une estocade. «Give the rascal a thrust.»
10: Pendant qu'il reprendra ses esprits sur le grès. «While he is recovering his senses on the flagstones.»
11: Dont le roi fera bruit. «Of which the king can boast.»
12: Navarre. Since 1512 Upper Navarre has belonged to Spain. Its capital is Pamplona. Navarre north of the Pyrenees, or Lower Navarre, has belonged to France since 1589.
13: Murcie, Murcia, formerly a Moorish kingdom, on the eastern coast of Spain.
14: les Flamands, «the Flemings», inhabitants of the so-called Spanish Netherlands, of which, in 1512, the Dutch provinces were incorporated in the Burgundian division of the Empire.