Hyrcanie, a district south-east of the Caspian Sea

Page 27. 1. 3. bien entendu, ' reasonable and beconiing." Cf. p. 80, 1. 13, ' un repas propre et bien entendu.'

1. 12. un vers. It will bo noticedthat each Une is a hemistieh, i.e. the half of the Alexandrines given on p. 28, divided at the cuesura.

Page 29. 1. 12. aller aux voix, 'to take the votes " ; so p. 84, 1.20.

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Page 30. 1. 8. maîtresse, in the sanie sensé as Shakespeare, As You Like It, il. iv. 38 : —

Or if thou hast not sat as I do now, .Wearing thy hearer in thy mistress' praise, Thou hast not loved.

1. 17. disgracier : retirer à quelqu'un sa faveur. Cf. 1. 27.

1. 20. à qui is used in idiomatic sentences of this form to express rivalry ; cf. ' c'était à qui pillerait ses trésors,' p. 54, 1. 30.

1. 23. 'payé de son bien. Such an incident is related of Chamillard, minister of Louis XIV : ' plus honnête homme que ministre,' says Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, c. xviii. For the construction cf. Voyages de Scarmen'ado, p. 116, 1. 9.