ACT IV. SCENE IV

1257. m'. Por the position, see 128.

1258. m'en remettre, rely,

1259. ses, i. e., of Orestes. So also sienSj 1260.

Ïl6 NOTES L. 1260-1329.]

1 260. tiendrais, should consider, or regard,

1261. plaisir, bliss. Plaisir^ like déplaisir y 81, 1263, is less emphatic now than in Racine's day.

1266. laissait. For the mood, cp. 6iî.

1270. Du Ryer, a minor dramatist, in his Themistocles^ printed in 1648, had said : {il fallait^ qu'il sût en mourant que c'est moi qui le tue, This play fumished also 1528. For the sentiment, see Corneille, Cinna^ I. ii. 101-104.

1271. voi. Cp. (:^,