• Empty-Pocket. ↩
• Cutthroat. ↩
• Mustards. ↩
• From casser , to break: break-necks. ↩
• Jeanne was born at Foug’re, a true shepherd’s nest; I adore her petticoat, the rogue. Love, thou dwellest in her; For ’tis in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp! As for me, I sing her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton breasts. ↩
• In allusion to the expression, coiffer Sainte-Catherine : to remain unmarried. ↩
• Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it is true that thou wilt wed ere long. ↩
• Tirer le diable par la queue : to live from hand to mouth. ↩
• Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone! ↩
• A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful children. ↩
• A short mask. ↩
• Pantinois . ↩
• In allusion to the story of Prometheus. ↩
• Academy of Sciences. ↩