Chapter XV

=A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLDEN TIME.= FRANÇOIS DE SCÉPEAUX, SIRE DE
VIEILLEVILLE, 1509-1571. From the French of Madame C. Coignet, by
C. B. PITMAN. In two vols., crown 8vo. 21s.

LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON ST.

Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] All wool.

[2] “Prively a _penner_ gan he borwe,
And in a lettre wrote he all his sorwe!”
_Marchant’s Tale_, l. 9753.

[3] A puppet.

[4] Shy, reserved.

[5] _Q. Quot feet I am high? Resp. of middle stature._

[6] Drawn from Pinkerton, Miss Hawkins, Coles MSS. and his letters.

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Transcriber’s note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Archaic spelling that may have been in use at the time of publication
has been preserved.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been preserved.

One unpaired double quotation mark could not be corrected.