Je m'oubliai moi-môme, Iforgot even unto mine ovm self

Pourquoi la lumière me ftit-elle accordée, Why vjos I ever bomf

19. marâtre, unkindy unnatural, cruel, A snbstantive used adjectively ; lit. stepmother : the word has not always had the depreciative sensé attached to it now. The suffîz -&tre answers the English suffiz -ish = bleuâtre, blnish. It is a diminutive sumx, weakening the meaning of the adjective. It is sometimes péjorative = doucefttre, sweetish ; bellâtre, beau(ish). It also enters into the composition of substantives, as the above, which formerly was only a diminutive of mère.

07. 12. sur la porte = sur le seviil de la porte, on the threshold.

22. les dernières paroles ... se retracèrent à ma pensée ; lit. the last words . . . retraced themselves ; / recolleded distiTictly the last words . . .