Scène VI

48 5— Ordures: Hère, corruption. Ordure, from Old

Fr. adjective ord, dirty, derived from Latin

horridus, répulsive, dirty.

48 8 — Reprendre : Hère, to accuse.

48 9— Je n'ai garde de, I do not at ail wish to . . • I

would not for the world . « .

48 29— Traites - moi de perfide: Call me perfidious.

Notice the expression traiter quelqu'un de,

to give some one the name of, to call ; it is not

to be cohfounded with traiter en, to treat like ;

b»Uerenroi,|otreatlikeaking.

Page $oline 13— Dès ce soir: This very evening. Dès, Lat et and ex ; the grave accent distinguishes it from des, of the, and indicates contraction.

50 16 — Qu'on se rétracte : Retract what you hâve said (eat yonr words). Orgon, very irate against his son, addresses him by the indefinite pronoun, as if he considered him nnworthy of a direct appeal.

50 21— Sus : Be off. Sus, Aère, is an interjection.