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10 17 — Tu fuis : You shun, avoid. (Lat. fugere, contracted vaiofiig're, whence fuir, to flee.)

10 19 — Dérobe à ton pays : Deprive your country ; ///.,

steal from . . . — Etym., Dérober, from fl'i? and raiibare, to steal, which is to be found in the sixth century ("Si quis in via alterum adsalierit et eum raubaverit." — Lex Salica). Raubaye cornes from the Germ. raiiben, to spoil, to steal, to rob.

10 22 — A t'en mésestimer : To esteem you the less for it.

(Mésestimer, to undervalue, from mes, corre sponding to Lat. minus, and estimer, from Lat astimare, to value.)

11 23— Pour donner : To engage. " L'armée était sur ^e

point de donner," the army was on the point of engaging. — Etym., Donner, to give, from Lat. donare, to give, to grant.

12 5— Joui de nos divorces: Profited by our intestine

quarrels. — Etym., Jouir, formerly joïr^ from

Lat. gaiidcre, to enjoy. — Divorce, fr. Lat. divortium, from diveiiere, to part or separate from.

rage 12 Ime g— Que si : But if.

12 29 — S'accepte, for est acceptée.

13 4 — Renouer : Renew. {Re, and nouer, to tie, from Lat.

nodare [from nodus\ to knot, to fasten.) 13 7 — A demain, ybr pour demain. (Low Lat. ûf^-wawè,

compounded of de, and manè, moming.) 13 14 — Misères: Troubles. (Lat. ?;zwma, misfortune.) 13 15 — Cependant: In themeanwhile. {Ce zxïà. pendant,

prep. during, from Lat. pendere, to hang.)

Cependant = pendant ce temps-là.