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Le Livre Messire Ode: Concordance to Piaget's Edition

The line numbering in Piaget’s edition of Le Livre Messire Ode, which is the version that is cited in the existing commentary, differs from that in Grenier-Winther’s edition, which we have adopted here, for four reasons. (1) Grenier-Winther includes in her numbering more of the lines that one infers from the rhymes are missing than Piaget does. (2) Grenier-Winther provides the full last stanza of the rondeaux (as we do as well), where Piaget gives only the initial line. (3) The prose passage that follows line 1089 (1080 in Piaget) takes up four more lines in Piaget’s edition than it does in Grenier-Winther’s. (4) Piaget makes two errors in his numbering, dropping a line between his 1665 and 1670 and another between his 1695 and 1700. To locate here a passage cited from Piaget’s edition, it is thus necessary to add to his line numbers, as follows:

Piaget's numbering

1–120
121–343
344–471
472–594
595–1080
1118–1447
1448–1647
1648–1668
1670–1682
1683–1698
1700–1711
1712–1932
1933
1934–2028
2029–2439
2440–2452
2453–2465
not included
Grenier-Winther’s numbering difference

1–120                      none
122–344                      +1
348–475                      +4
477–599                      +5
604–1089                    +9
1123–1452                  +5
1456–1655                  +8
1659–1679                 +11
1680–1692                 +10
1696–1711                 +13
1712–1723                 +12
1727–1947                 +15
1949                          +16
1956–2050                 +22
2055–2465                 +26
2470–2482                 +30
2486–2498                 +33
2499–2501