Scène IV

L. 849. Rodrigue, who had concealed himself, 1. 772, suddenly eûmes forth. -W, as 1. 771. Even in Corneille's time, this form was already regarded as a poetic license.

Z. 855, Note the change from vous to ///, to which Chimène responds — the more éloquent hère because seemingly unconscious. The force of this caresse du langage, as Balzac calls it, it is impossible to give in English : it changes hère the whole character of the scène.

Z. 857. avecque for avec, foi the sake of the verse.

Z. 860. Qui reproche, etc. : ' which brings before my eyes the reproach of,' etc. — croître, as 1. 740.

Z. 867. Ote-moi, hère and 1. 859, not exactly as 1. 483. Rather 1 take out of my présence,' 'hide from me;' or perhaps, as Fass- NACHT prefers, the ethical dative : 'take away, I pray you.'

Z. 879. Ce n'est pas qu'en effet, etc. : ' Not, indeed, that my love did not,' etc. Note the subjunctive following.

Z. 886. emportait for the conditional, ' would hâve turned the scale.' Compare descendaient, 1. 714.

Z. 887. à moins que d'opposer : 'but for opposing ' — usuallyJ moins de with infin. or à moins que with subjunctive. The object of opposer is found in the several successive clauses following.

Z. 890. qui m 'aima : ' she who loved me.' Compare 393.

Z. 895. f ai dû m'y porter : 'I was obliged to bring myself to it ; ' /'. e., ' I had to do it.'

Z. 898. à *W dépends on satisfaire. But see 1. 729, and note, 1. 20.

Z. 902. te dépends on dérober, indirect object, as 1. 758, etc. For un père mort, compare 1. 644.

Z. 904. celui qui, etc. : ' him who glories in having shed it.'

Z. 911. Note the unusual position of que. We should expect que le devoir d'un homme, etc. de bien is hère ' good,' ' true.'

Z. 917. Compare note to 1. 822. Note also même for le même, as 1. 62.

L. 920. allégement in the sensé of soulagement. Compare allégeance, 1. 690. charmes in the sensé of protection : 'talisman.'

L. 924. cet effort sur; more regularly contre, as 1. 921. But sur implies a victorious effort.

L. 9 28 de lâches sentiments pour : 'any base sympathy for,' etc. She repeats his words, 1. 871.

L. 929. " Whatever our love may plead in your favor," see 1. 843. For répondre see 1. 206.

Z. 936. Le coup — l'arrêt; see 1. 756.

Z. 940. Va, like allons frequently, is hère used as an exclama-

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tion: 'Nay!' So 1. 963. Compare old English, go toi — partie and bourreau are the légal terms.

L. 942. Est-ce à moi, • is it for me,' etc. In next line note changea order, for variety of form — hardly now possible.

Z. 948. C'est n'y répondre pas — more emphatic than the usual order, 1. 944 — ' is no response to it ; ' y referring to la mienne, 1. 946. For the infinitives 1. 947, compare 847-8.

Z" 955- ' Will not consent to owe anything to the promptings either of your love or your despair.'

Z. 965. et que ta flamme dure, dépends xvç>otl saura, as an objective clause; and that, etc. For publîront see 1. 832, etc.

Z. 970. Note the emphatic and figurative position of noire. So mourante, 1. 993.

Z. 974. encore que, in the sensé of bien que.

L. 978. cest de savoir que, ' will be the knowledge that.' The form c'est is used equally with référence to the past and future, as well as to the présent.

Z. 982. à in sensé oipour, as 1. 20, etc.

Z. 988. heur, in the sensé of bonheur. Compare 1035. The scène which hère culminâtes in passionate tenderness and regret is unsurpassed throughout for éloquence and beauty. The voices mingle in the broken sentences, 1. 987.

Z. 992. encore iui coup in the sensé of encore une fois.