9. Roundell: French, “rondeau;” a song that comes
round again to the verse with which it opened, or that
is taken up in turn by each of the singers.
10. In modern French form, “Sous la feuille, devers
moi, son et mon joli coeur est endormi” — “Under the
foliage, towards me, his and my jolly heart is gone to
sleep.”
11. Prester John: The half-mythical Eastern potentate,
who is now supposed to have been, not a Christian
monarch of Abyssinia, but the head of the Indian
empire before Zenghis Khan’s conquest.
12. Oak cerrial: of the species of oak which Pliny, in
his “Natural History,” calls “cerrus.”