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9 6— Je n'y veux point aller. Elmire, Mariane, Damis, ont of politeness accompany Mme. Pernelle to the door, and that is where Cléante "won't

9 7— Encor, in prose is invariably written encore, but m poetry the e is retained or dropped to suit the measure of the Une.

9 IO— Ouït, from the defective verb ouïr, to hear. In English the cry Oyez, or O yes, of a public crier to ensure attention, is the 2nd pers. plur. Imperat of this verb.

9 12— A lui donner ce nom. This construction would not be allowable in prose ; the person who does the action expressed by the Infinitive must be the same as the subject of the preceding verb ; hère we should say " A ce qu'on lui donne ce nom."

9 . 14— Coiffée : Infatuated. From e <riffe> a head-dress ; il est né coiffé, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth — born with a caul, a circumstance to which superstition attached an idea of good luck.

9 15— Au prix de, more generally auprès de, in comparisonwith.

9 17 — Nos troubles : Our disturbances ; that is to say, " La Fronde," the civil war which for five years disturbed the regency of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis