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Z. 1565. respect de : ' respect for.'

Z. 1572. pour être vaillant ; pour, as in 1. 447: ' though you are valiant.' Compare the English, 'for ail your valor.'

L. 1575, Est-il dit : ' is it decreed ; ' as Latin fatum, properly 'spoken.' Coûte is subjunctive, ' shall cost.'

L. 1579. We may translate, 'if after so long a struggle, it never succeeds either in,' etc. Obtenir sur is properly to gain an object over or against any one. Compare 1. 924.

Z. 1592. du sang: i.e., of kindred blood — the duty of Chimène to her father. On don, 1. 1590, see 1. 102.