honnêtes gens, wcll-bred people. See page 3, note

6. au collège. The collège was a boarding-school, like an academy. — le fouet. Corporal punishment formed no small part of the school discipline.

7. Plût à Dieu l’avoir = Plût à Dieu que je Vettsse, which is the usual construction to-day. In the sevententh century there was a larger use of the infinitive in dépendent clauses than now.

8. Cela vous rendrait, etc. Knee-breeches formerly made a good calf of more practical value than trousers now do. Notice mat in this conversation it is M. Jourdain who holds the higher ground, in opposb tion to his wife’s utilitarianism.

Page 38. — I. est prose. In the original text this phrase reads;, n' est point prose ; possibly a satire on M. Jourdain’s learning, or else a mistake of the printer.

Page 39. — i. d’avoir à faire = a' avoir affaire.

2. C’est bien autre chose. Ifs a nmch finer thing. Notice that a strict syntax would require serait for est.

Il6 NOTES P. 40-43.]

3. De quoi est-ce, etc., Whafs the use of ail that ? Whatdoes it cure?