Acte //, Se. V/r, VI/L] NOTES

a foregoing verb. See examples hereafter. Note the emphatic inversion, fû t-il, ' were he,' for quoiqu'il fût.

L. 571. en refers to the preceding wish. We may translate : 1 Since he abuses my elenicney' — 'go this very day and arrest him.' Note the idiom, abuser de, Latin ablative.

L. 580. à prendre son parti . 'by taking *his part.' Compare I. 78, etc.