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38 18— Faquin: A coxcomb; formerly street porter i used now only as a term of insuit Italit»

facchino, a porter.

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JPage 38 Unt 20— Et si je ne fais pas quelque coup de ma tête : And

if I don't do some rasb act.

39 4 -Le chemin est long du projet à la chose : There is

many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

39 16— Faire naître : Give rise to.

39 17— S'il fiant qu'à ce dessein il prête quelque espoir s

If he intends to be at ail favourable to this

plan, to give encouragement to this project ;

that is to say, Orgon's intention of marrying

bis daughter to Tartuffe.

39 *9— H s'en allait descendre : He was on the .point of

coming down. S'en aller generally means to go away ; Molière often uses it instead ot "aller/

40 1— Discipline : A whip used by monks to chastise

themselves with. Donner la discipline à quelqu'un, to scourge a person.

40 9~ Prenez-moi ce mouchoir : Pray take this handker* chief. Moi, hère, is expletive ; yet prenez-mot is not the same as prenez ; moi ados to it the idea of, do it for tny sake, or, pray do it ; or again, follow my advice, and take • • •

40 11 — Que je ne saurais voir : Which I cannot bear to see.

40 21— Vous quitter la partie : Retire ; literatty, leave the game to you. Quitter la partie is to acknowledge that your adversary has won the game ; hence, to retire*

40 23— Je n'ai seulement çu^ vous dire : I hâve only but to tell you. Dorme hère is guîlty of a pleo-

41 3— Je suis toujours pour ce que j'en ai dit : I still stick to what I said about it ; *.*., that Tartuffe felt tenderly towards Elmire.