Serait-ce, might it be

P. G1,L Tr. énjures, harm.

1.12. Zes destins...Cf. Cicero, de Nat. Deor.: “‘sejungi non potest fortuna ab inconstantia.”

L 23. Si vous en savez un, if you know one; savoir here for connaître. There is a slight difference between the meaning of #a/keureux and that of #isé'able ; the former, as the etymology shews (O0. F. heur, from the 1. augurium), signifies #n/ucky ; the latter means wortky of compassion. |

À. 25. THAMYRIS, ἃ poet of Thrace, supposed to have been struck with blindness by the Muses whom he had challenged in a musical contest.

L 27. (ΕΡΙΡΕ. On the circumstance that Œdipus put out his own eyes, see Sophocles, Œdip. Tyr. 447, 713, 731. -

L 29. déclin, the last years of my life.

1.34. Z{s versent à l'envi…, they vie with one another in pouring…

1.36. Ze fromage (O. F. formage), properly something made in a form, shape or mould. 1,. formaticum. “‘Ova manducant et /ormaticum, id est caseum ” (passage quoted by Ducange). The transposition of the r in /romage is like that of the same letter in épre#— éperté, from the L. asferitatem.

amande, almond (L. amygdalum); not to be confounded with amende, a fine, compensation (liter. amends), from the L. emendare,

- 1 37. gissant, lying (L. jacere), more usually spelt gisant. ‘“...la difficulté ne gissaif pas de plaire à cette belle.” (Za Fontaine.)

L 38. Aors d’haleine, ont of breath. /Z0rs from the I. fers. ©. F. Jors. “Tout est perdu, /ors l'honneur.” The permutation of # for j is likewise exemplifed in the substantive #asdes (clothes) =0O. K. Jardes. ‘6 De poures /ardes se vesti.” (Koman de Rou.)

P. 62,1. 9φ.. Qu'aimable est la vertu, how amiable virtue 15...

1. ro. LATONE, the mother of Apollo and Diana, persecuted: by Juno, found refuge in the island of Delos which Neptune brought forth from the bottom of the Grecian archipelago on purpose to receive her.

L 17. Le plus Êgé de vous aura vu, idiomatic for a vu.

L 24. CYME or CUME, a town of Asia Minor, on the gulf of the same name (now gulf of Sendarli), is one of the localities which claim the honour of having given birth to Homer.

1. 268 CARIE (CARIA), a province of Asia Minor. As early as Homer’s time the Greeks considered the inhabitants of that district as barbarians and slaves.

1.33. du rossigncl (O. F. lossignol), from the L. L. /usciniolhus. The changing of / into > occurs in several other words; thus pa/e/roi from L. parafredus.

P. 63,1 16. D'un chanteur comme toi. Orpheus is meant here.