Wif sont pas envers vous l'effet à? aucune haine

Aucun had formerly the affirmative sensé ot some, any; but it is now used negatively with ne, without/Ar.

43 5— Point : Lace, embroidery.

43 7— On tient que : They say that, it is believed (they

hold it true that).

43 9*-H m'en a dit deux mots : He did just mention it 13 10— Après quoi: For après lequel; quoi is mostly

j6 LE TARTUFFE.

tised now as an indefinite pronoun, bot In the seventeenth century authors constantly nsed it as Molière does hère in référence to a noua preceding.

&& 43/8»* 27— Une ardente amour; amour is now masc in the sing., and fem. in the plural. In Molière's time amour in the sensé of love was fem. in the sing. N.B. — Amours, in the plural, in the sensé of M the Loves " is masc

44 2 — Noir esprit: Evil spirit.

44 2 — Adroite and secrète rhymed perfectiy in Molière's time, adroite beiog pronounced adrouète; they do not rhyme now, because the pronunciation haschanged.

44 4— A faire mon salut : To ensure my salvation. Faire son salut, to live in such a way as to deserve eternal happiness.

44 18— Un peu bien surprenante : Somewhat, rather sur* prising.

44 28— Vous en prendre à : Lay the blâme on.

44 30— Intérieur : Inmost heart.

45 I— Que si (for s'il arrive que) : If it should happen

that ; — s'il faut que (1. 3), has the same meaning.

45 4— Néant : Nothingness, unworthiness. Néant, Lat nec, not, ens, entit, a being. Fainéant, he who does nothing, an icQer; néanmoins, nothing less, nevertheless ; anéantir, to armihi» late, to reduce to nothing.

45 4— Se ravaler : Lower themselves. Ravaler, from n and aval, Lat. ad vallem, to the valley, henot se ravaler, to lower one's self. .En amont {ad montent) d'une rivière, against the stream ; en aval, with the stream. Avalanche, a mass of snow which cornes (ad vallem) down from the mountain into the valley. It was late in the history of the language that avaler assumed the restrictive sensé of to swallow.

45 11— Se targuer : To brag. Targuer, from the sus* stantive large, a shield, a target ; se targner et quelquechose, literally, to use something as a shield, to put defiantly forward, to boast o£

4S 16— Avec qui. The antécédent of qui is feu; ws should say now "avec lequel"; this if another of the numerous instances in which Molière avoids using lequel. Qui after a pre» position can only be used in référence to »

person.

4$ 28— Vous ferez grâce à : You wfll forgive ; faire grâct de, to let off, to spam

Jfeç/ 45 line 29— Sur t /fore, in considération of, on account of.

45 34— Se faire paroître, se montrer: To show itself;

expression in use in the seventeenth century . Paroître, derived from the Low IaU parescere, the fréquentative of parère, which acconn t s for the circumflex.

46 3— Avecqne, mnch used in Molière's time for arec,

particularly m verse ; the que is an addition not justified bv the etymology : Old Fr. avoc | Lat apud and hoc .