83: The Austrian coat of arms contains a double-headed eagle with an escutcheon on its breast.
84: Saint Étienne, Saint Stephen.
85: misères du roi, «pettiness of the king».
86: Le Danois à punir, perhaps an allusion to the fact that the Danish parliament was one of the first large political bodies to defy the Pope and set up a national church (1527).
87: Le Saint-Père à payer. Pope Leo X adroitly avoided declaring himself for either Charles or Francis, yet maintained such a position that the successful competitor should consider himself his debtor.
88: Venise. Robertson says that the «views and interest of the Venetians were not different from those of the Pope», and yet that they sided with Francis, because they had more to fear and to hope from him.
89: Soliman. Soliman the Magnificent, Emperor of Constantinople, was knocking loudly at the doors of western Europe, and one of the reasons why Frederick the Wise declined his election was that Charles would prove a stronger power against the Turks.
ACT V.
1: cherchant fortune, «a-courting».
2: Vouliez-vous pas qu'il mît son cercueil de la noce? «You wouldn't have him drag his coffin into the wedding?»