Line 5. "_Jehanne_", "_Jehan_", in spite of the classical survival in
their spelling, were monosyllables from the earliest times.
Line 7. The "_elles_" here would not scan but for the elided "e" in
"_souv'raine_" at the end of the line. In some editions "_ils_" is found
and _souveraine_ is spelt normally. _Ils_ and _els_ for a feminine
plural existed in the middle ages.
_Envoi._ The envoi needs careful translation. The "que" of the third
line="sans que" and the whole means, "Do not ask this week or this year
where they are, _without_ letting this refrain haunt you". "Que" might
possibly mean "de peur que", did not the whole sense of the poem forbid
such an interpretation.