ACT III. SCENE VI

4. Si Madame Jourdain, etc. A boastful promise impossible to redeem, and intended to excite the laughter of the Chambord audience.

5. vous baise les mains, is your humble servant ; declining the offer.

Page 48. — I. le ballet. The Ballet des Mations, v^hich ends the play.

2. cadeau, entertainment. Obsolète in this sense. Farther on the more usual term régale is applied to it.