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7 7 — Avoir tort: To be wrojig, or to be mistahen.

Avoir raison : To be right. — Tort is derived frôm the Lat. iortus (part, of torqueo), twisted, and, in Carolingian times, a twist, damage, injustice.

7 13 — Mon plus unique bien : Voltaire sees a pleonasm in this expression, but tmiqtce has hère the meaning of cher, dear, not of oiily one.

7 28 — Change, for changement [from the v. changer,

derived from the Low Lat. cainbiare (Lex Salica), from the Lat. cambire, to be found in Apuleius (a.d. 163)].

8 6 — Faire bon visage à quelqu'un : To look kindly

upon somebody. Rather too familiar an expression for a tragedy.

8 II— Qu'on m'estime, T^r qu'on me croie.

S 15— Feux, /£>;■ amour. (Lat. /ô«<j', hearth, fireplace.)

8 19 — Le jeta par terre : Dashed it to the ground — i.e.y destroyed it.

8 23 — Vomit : Poured forth. (Lat. vomere, to throw up, to pour forth.)

8 24 — Ruisseaux {de larmes, understood) : Floods of tears. (Ruisseau, formerly missel, from Low Lat. rivicellus, dim. of rivus, a siaïall stream of water, a brook.)

8 33— Eut droit : Was calculaled to . . . " Avoir droit " means lit. " être capable de."

Pa^e 9 /i!t£ 2 — Travaux : Sorrows, troubles. The sing. is (ravail. The other plural form is iravails. Etym., Low Lat. trabacidum, derived from the ace. trabem, a beam, the original meaning of travail being horsebreaker's break.

9 9, 10 — Des ravissements qui passaient : Transports of joy which surpassed. — Etym., Ravir, from Lat. rapért, which became rapijre, ravir, to ravish.

9 14 — Que je parlais à lui, for que je lui parlais.

9 15 — Ni de glace : Neither coldness, lit. ice. (Low Lat. glacia, a secondary form of gîacies, found in Grœco-Lat. glossaries in the Middle Ages.)

9 20 — Hier is again scanned as a word of one syllable. —

Je n'y pris pas garde : I took no notice of it. —

Etym., garde is the verbal subst. of the v.

garder, from the Old High German warten, to

watch over.

9 27 — De suite : Cohérent. — Etym., see note, p. 4, 1. 23. 9 2>-~Q- the English saying, " The vvish is father to the

thought." 10 I — Dure à jamais : May last for ever. Dure\% in the

Subj. Cf. Lat. Inteream sivaleo stare, may I

die if I hâve strength to stand. For Etym.,

see note, p. 34, 1. 26.

10 2 — Avoir le dessous: To hâve the worst of it — i.e.,

to be conquered, defeated. — Etym., Dessous,

from de, and Lat. subtus, below, uuderneath.