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But the gentlefolk continued to drink and to propose the healths

of Napoleon, the Generals, Thaddeus, and Zosia; finally of all

three betrothed pairs in turn, of all the guests present with

them, of all those that had been invited, of all the friends that

any one alive could remember, and of all the dead whose memory

had remained holy.

And I was there among the guests, and there drank wine and mead;

And what I saw and heard I wrote, that all of you might read.231

NOTES

[Such of the following notes as are not enclosed in brackets are

by Mickiewicz himself. They include the entire commentary that

the poet published with Pan Tadeusz. The other notes are either

by the translator or culled from the following books or suggested

by them:-

Mickiewicz, Pisma, wyd. Kallenbach (Brody, 1911), tom v. (This

includes a "glossary" to Pan Tadeusz by Franciszek Jerzy

Jaroszynski.)