L. 1. _couronnés de rose_; _rose_ for _roses_, for the sake of the
rhyme.
L. 16. _Montigny._ An estate belonging to the brothers Trudaine,
situated in Brie, eighteen leagues from Paris.
L. 17. _où la Marne._ At Maroeuil, where the family of his friend de
Pange had an estate.
Ll. 19, 20. A reminiscence of an epigram in the _Greek Anthology_
(_Analecta_, t. ii. p. 429, C. viii).