* The sonnet, composed in 1659, is from the Oeuvres galantes (Gallant Works) of Abbé Cotin, where it was addressed to Mademoiselle de Longueville, duchess of Nemours, upon her quartan fever. The princess referred to above (line 752) is the King’s cousin, Mlle. de Montpensier. The use of culinary terms (lines 747–754) is probably a reference to Cotin’s Festin poétique (Poetic Feast).