Note 131 — HENRI QUATRE.
Reading edition
La plume au vent is supposed by le Pelletier to stand for currente calamo. I should rather think it means the feather (wing) to the wind. It was written with a quill, and started on its way as a bird flies; but irrevocabile semel emissum. We are to understand this line to relate to l’Oste’s treasonable complicity with Spain, of which an account will be given further on. Also, l’escrivain, in the closing line stands for the same individual.