Chapter LIX: French

A la _Ferté_ prendra la _Vidame_,
_Nicol_ tenu rouge quavoit produit la vie,
La grand _Loyse_ naistra qui fera clame,
Donnant _Bourgongne_ a _Bretons_ par envie.

English.

In the _Ferté_ the _Vidame_ shall take
_Nicol_, reputed red, whom life hath produced,
The great _Lewis_ shall be born, who shall lay claim,
Giving _Burgundy_ to the _Britains_, through envy.

ANNOT.

This Stanza wanting both quantity in the Cadence of the Verse, and Connexion in the sense, sheweth that it is either falsly printed, or else the Author had no mind it should be understood; we shall only say, the _Ferté_ is a Town in _Champagne_. _Vidame_ is a Lords Title in _France_, of which there are but four of that sort, and are called in Civil Law _Vicedominus_, who by his first Institution, was temporal Judge of the Bishop; the first of those _Vidames_ or _Vicedomini_ in _France_, is that of _Amiens_, the second of _Chartres_, the third of _Rhemes_, and the fourth of _Gerberon_.