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Line 1. _Fourriers._ The servants who go before to find lodging. The
term survives in French military terminology. The _Fourriers_ are the
non-commissioned officers and party who go forward and mark the
Billeting of a regiment.
Line 9. _Pieça=il y a pièce_; "lately". _Cf._ _naguère_="_il n'y a
guère...."_
Line 11. _Prenez pais_="take the fields," begone.
Line 19. Note "_Chant_," the regular form of the subjunctive=_Cantet_.
The only latin vowel preserved after the tonic syllable is a=French e
(mute). Thus _contat_="chante" which form has in modern French usurped
the subjunctive.
Line 23. _Livrée_="Liberata," _i.e._, things given out. A term
originally applied not only to clothing, but to the general allowance of
the king's household. Hence our word "livery."