GENERAL NOTES

The notes and explanations will be found at the end of each play. They are arranged in accordance with the acts and scènes, with références to the Unes in each page, not reckoning the names of the dramatis ^ersonœ^ the running title, or the stage directions.

In the seventeenth century the two letters ai preceding the consonants s and t in the infinitives, présent and imperfect tenses, and conditional mood, of some verbs, used invariably to be written oi^ as

l'or connaître

one finds

connoître.

„ je connais

connois.

„ il connaît

connoît.

„ je vouarais

voudrois.

„ il voudrait

voudroit.

„ U faUait, &c.,

falloit, &c.

The Editors hâve preferred pointing this out in a note to altering the text.