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Page 1$ lm* 3— De quoi: Something. Notice, **û a de psoi vivre," he has enough to live upon; "Je vous demande pardon." "Il n'y a pas dé çuoi," I beg your pardon. Don't mention it ; " Ne vous inquiétez pas, il n'y a pas de quoi* Do not make yourself uneasy, there is no reason to do so.

19 9— Or sus, nous voila bien: Now then, we are ail right Or,01d Fr. ores, from Lat. hora. Sus, Lat* susum, sursum. Courre (old form of courir) sus, to pounce upon ; en sus, moreover, over, extra ; en sus de, besides.

19 15— Oh : Represents the idea, avoir soin de contenter mon père ; Molière in his prose as well as in his poetry frequently uses oh in cases in which modem grammarians would condemn it, but where, nevertheless, the meaning is dear and the expression concise,

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Page ai Uni 5 — A nous Tenir écouter de la sorte : Since von are

urged by it to tome and listen to us in this way.

a* 18— Ne croyez point à monsieur votre père : Do not

believe your father. We should say now ne

, . croyez point votre père. Croire à more gène-

rally means to believe in the existence of ; croire m means the same, but imp&es greafter and firmer belief than croire à. Ex. : fi croit aux revenants, he believes in ghosts. Nous croyons en Dieu, we believe in God.

ai ai— Vous avez beau faire : Do what fou wHl (you won't be believed). Avoir beau, followed by an Infinitive, means that what is expressed by the Infinitive is done or sufiered in vain. Compare the English expression "It is ail very

2a 9 — N'est point l'affaire d'un bigot : Has nothing to do with a bigot, would not suit a bigot at ail.

Notice : Il est à son af&ire, he is in his own élément; ceci fait-il votre affaire? does this suit you?

83 5— Y : i.e.y dans son hymen.

a3 95— Est le mieux du monde : Is on thé best possible terms.

23 28— Tout confit en, ail made up of.

24 2 — Ouais : What t Familiar interjection expressing

surprise.

. 24 J— Encolure: Neck, the setting of the neck and shoulders in a horse and other animais ; hence the appearance, look. Il en a l'encolure (familiarly), he looks it ail over.

24 7— Où vous n'avez <jue faire : Where you hâve no* business; nihil habes qttod facias.

84 15 — Brocards : Taunts, scoffs. " Etym., Il y a dans le

bas-latin, brocarda^ brocardicum, brocardicorum optes y qui signifient sentences de droit contenuesdans un ouvrage que compila, dans le Xle.

siècle, BurcAard, éveque de Worms. Burchard ou Brocard donna son nom au livre, burcardus* aux sentences brocardiques ; et les sentence» mêmes ont donné, par extension et plaisanterie, leur nom aux brocards, paroles moqueuses." — <Littré.)

24 15— Un chacun : Everyone, each one. Chacun un would mean one each.

24 17— C'est une conscience : (For, un cas de conscience, matter of conscience) It would be a shame to • « . ; my conscience would prick me if • ♦ é

flsjvaj Une 7— Damoiseau* A iép; damoiseau er damoise^

which hat given the féminine demoiselle. *r

•' - demoiselle, as nouveau» nouvel, bas given

nouvelle, was the titfeqriven to young nobleaSeafie**» (hsflgh '

t who Were not "riwraBa»* (ldflghts); hence fbp, tpark. Damoiseau Uderived front ' . the Low Lut. dominic*ttus> the diminutive of demùms. , H

*5 IO— Que* Orgon goes on tvifhout paying any attention to Donne*» interruption, so that qm betongs to de aorte ; demorte que, in such m manner that . . •

•*§- * M— Loties From lotir, to doleniwfr<shares, Iota, La voilà bien lotie! Wha&a good bargatn that ' will be for her ! Hov> ltfcky she ought to considerherselft h

»5 -' If— On ne fera nul cas t No notice will be taken. Faire cas de, to value, to esteem, to hâve regard for. '<■•• • 2o> 3— Que, for pourquoi, why. ftQuè ne m'avlea-vous dit cela? Why did you not say so ?

a6 SWQaelque sotte : Not such a foot EUiptjcal expression : Quelque autres que moi serait asses sotte pour parler» ' '

aÇ 14— Hor* d'état de: Unfit to; en-état 4e, fit*», able to. *

SCXNS IIL •&**"* ;,f;

a6 18-Je fasse votre rôle ; Play yon^naxt? ,-

*7 11 — A fait pour vous des pas : Hfes taken steps about you, bas made overtures», We now say faire des démarches, to take stgps, tomake an appU» cation. ,' c:i - - :.■

$!J 80— Ont su trop éclater 1 Hâve shown themselves but too readily. This constmetioia with> savoir makes the sentence less abrupt and more élégant in verse than the simpler one ont trop éclaté. Compare je ne saurais vous dire, I could not tell you ; vous ne sauriez croire, you will hardlv believe.

28 II— Dans l'occasion: Hère, at the critical moment Dans l'occasion, par occasion, 6 l'occasion, occasionally ; d'occasion, second-hand.

28 16— Bourru fieffé : A regular bear. Bourra, ad/., used hère as a sttâst., surly fellow ; fieffé, who has a fief. Un noble fieffé, was a nbbleman with both a title and a fief; hence, nowadays, fieffé, joined to uucomplimentary epithets, givea greater force to the expression: Un fou, un

f ->. , ---•■•• voleur, on coqum 'nefrV a- perfect nutipipm*>avr i -?

legular thief, a downright scamp.

Baj* 28 line 34— Par le monde i Al^ovesXh» world, bcfore every» body. — 1. .; ,. • . , . • -" «

29 5— A bien prendre la xfcose^ ToJbok at tfae thing fa

the nght light 29 6— Qui se mouche., du piedî Totbe despised, trffled with. a commun ordinaxy< man» • - Se moucher» toblowoné's nose. ,;It wâf a common trick with mdturteliank* te? stand- on' ônefoot, ançl to pass' aie bther; . supported by their hands, rapidry under their nose; hence, Il ne se mouche pas du pied, heJs<no mountebank, he is a seriouslman, jiot to De trined with*

" *9 7— Heur : Luck, geod fortune ; ■ derivcd from the Lat» augurium (avis, a bir4 , and, the root olgarrire, to chatter * Sanskrit çw or gri, to cry).

•' : 29 l9*-»Voulût-on : Even if they wished. More concise and more expressive than J f si on voulait" ; si is left- eut,, the verbis m the Subj., and the pronoun is piaced-after» - • • ,\

- 29 aô-LabaUUye, l'élue t.Thewifeof the'' bailU^ and that of the "élu. Baillis seigneuriaux^ magistrates appointed by the lord of the manor.

JSimS, marfstrate& having «the management of the tax caued tàllage, and briginally elected by the people.

• 99 29— A savoir: Naméfy. . .The complété expression vas mire assavoir; the latter verb being an Old Fr. verb, now written savoir,.

29 ** • 30— Fa^otin : A name fpr perf ormmfc monkeys. , -

30 7— Vous en tâterez : You must hâve him, you are ,-j

• boundtomarryhim. <

50 10— Tartumée : Made Tartuffe'» ovn. Averbcoined

by Dorinefrom the name ot Tartuffe. * * 30 16— Nonobstant tout : In spite of everything. lat»

non and àbsîar^ to oppose* .....* . , 1 " .;