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With Fire and Sword, chapter I. ↩ + 

The bishop who visited Zagloba at Ketling’s house, see chapter XVI. ↩ + 

A celebrated bishop of Krakow, famous for ambition and success. ↩ + 

A diminutive of endearment for Anna. Anusia is another form. ↩ + 

One of the chiefs of a confederacy formed against the king, Yan Kazimir, by soldiers who had not received their pay. ↩ + 

The story in Poland is that storks bring all the infants to the country. ↩ + 

This refers to the axelike form of the numeral 7. ↩ + 

Diminutive of Barbara. ↩ + 

Diminutive of Krystina, or Christiana. ↩ + 

Drohoyovski is Parma Krysia’s family name. ↩ + 

A diminutive of Anna, expressing endearment. ↩ + 

To place a watermelon in the carriage of a suitor was one way of refusing him. ↩ + 

“Kot” means “cat,” hence Basia’s exclamations are, “Scot, Scot! cat, cat!” ↩ + 

In Polish, “I love” is one word, “Kocham.” ↩ + 

In the original this forms a rhymed couplet. ↩ + 

That is let me kiss you. ↩ + 

Injured his head. ↩ + 

The Tsar’s city⁠—Constantinople. ↩ + 

Zagloba refers here to Pavel Sapyeha, voevoda of Vilna, and grand hetman of Lithuania. ↩ + 

Poland. ↩ + 

God is merciful! God is merciful. ↩ + 

The territory governed by a pasha, in this case the lands of the Cossacks. ↩ + 

The Commonwealth. ↩ + 

That means as tall as a stove. The tile or porcelain stores of eastern Europe are very high. ↩ + 

A barber in that age and in those regions took the place of a surgeon usually. ↩ + 

Each nearly equal to five English miles. ↩ + 

A hot drink made of gorailka, honey, and spices. ↩ + 

Motovidlo’s words are Russian in the original. ↩ + 

See note after introduction. ↩ + 

Hero. ↩ + 

More likely Yan Zisca, the great leader of the Hussites. ↩ + 