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S 2 — De ma part : From me. Notice. — De quelle part venez- vous? who sent you? Faites-lui bien des amitiés de ma part, give him my kind regards.

5 4— Paresse: Delay. Usually, idleness, from Lat

ptgritia,

5 5 — Madame : My lady. Dame, Lat. domina^ was at

first a title given to the wife of a lord, a knight, a nobleman, in opposition to that of demoiselle, Lat. dominicella, which was given to married women of the middle class. Madame is now Mistress. In tragédies unmarried ladies are addressed as Madame.

5 9— Traits : Shaft. From Lat. traetus. The god of love is represented with a bow and arrows.

I^gé S&irio— De ma main t From me.

WhoM dinlled hetrfft a^rdlt

Nofas.

5 12— Ainsi de ces amants ayant formé les chaînes : So that having *rought the fetters that bind thèse loyers. Ainsi, Old Fr. ensi, insi, from Lat s* and sic. Chaîne, Lat catena.

5 l6— Les comble d'allégresse : Fills them with joy. Combler from Lat. cumulare. Cf. cumuler, accumuler, to accumulate. Allégresse, alacrity, from allègre, Lat. alacris.

5 19— Alors que : When, now that Alors is composed of à, the préposition, 1', the article, and ors for ores (the nominative), from Lat. horam ; alors que is literally at the hour (time) that ItaL allora.

5 20— Trop avant: Too far. See the Etymological Vocabulary in this book.

5 21 — A la tenir secrète : Bv keeping it secret. This use of à with the innnitive corresponds to that of m, with the participle présent " en la tenant," and to the Lat gerund in do; it is more graceful and élégant, and is very frequently found in Corneille.

5 25— Cavalier : Nobleman, gentleman. The custom of

calling nearly everybody Cavalier is, like the word itself, cawUiere % an Itakan importation of the sixteenth century. The French word is chevalier y formed from cheval; Lat cabaîlus; so that since the sixteenth century we hâve in the language two forms : chevalier, knight, and cavalier a rider, a partner, a dancer, a knight at chess ; this word is not so extensively used now as in Corneille*s time in the sensé of noble gentleman.

6 S— Si je sors du respect : If I make bold ta

6 5 — Flamme : Love, passion ; very often used in that sensé in Corneille.

6 6— A ce point s'oublier que . . . : So far forget her rank as to love . . •

6 IO— Il m'en souvient si bien : I remember it so welL The verb hère is impersonal and reflexive ; this is an expression thoroughly French — Lat nùhi subvenu. The more familiar phrase, •* Te m'en souviens," is not in accordance with the etymology of souvenir, s«ô ventre.

Page 6 Une IO— Épandre, like répandre, to shed. Epandre, OU

Fr. tspandre, Lat. expandere % indicates care and

order in the action, and is not so familiar as ré*

pandre, to shed, spread, spill, ponr out.

6 13 — Produire des flammes : To beget love. *S^f p. 6,

6 16 — S'engage hère means Is at srake. Notice. — S'engager à, to pledge oneself to ; 60m en and gage, a pledge ; gages, wages.

6 23— Et j'allumai leurs feux pour éteindre les miens s And I kindled their love to extinguish mine.

6 24 — Mon âme gênée : My tortured soûl. Gêne in Corneille's time was still a very energetic expression. In accordance with its etymology, Gehenna, a valley on the south of Jérusalem, where certain idolâtrons Jews had sacrificed their children to Moloch; thence afterwards held in abomination (Calmet). Into this valley carcases of animais and malefactors were thrown, and the sewers of the city were emptied, while perpétuai fires were kept np to consume the noxious matter and prevent pestilential effluvia (Brande).

s his t

The pleasant valley of Hinnon, Tophet thence And black Gthtnna call'd, the type of Hell.

—Maton, •• ParadUe Lost"

Old Fr. thirteenth century, gehine, mettre à 1* gehine, same as mettre à la question, to torture. Gêne means nowaday annoyance, want ; Etre dans la gêne, to be in straitened circumstances $, Sa présence nous gênait, his présence made us feel uncomfortable ; Il est gênant, he is an* noying.

6 28 — Faute de nourriture : For want, lack of fuel.

6 32 — Cependant: Meanwhile. This word is mostly used now as a conjunctiqp, meaning however, nevertheless, but. Cependant, from ce, for cela* and pendant, part. pr. of pendre, L&Lpendert, to suspend. Cf. Engl. pending.

53— Jusques à ... : Till. Jusques or jusque, the former used only before vowels, the latter used in any case, provided an apostrophe takes the place of the e before vowels* In the dialect of Ficardy dusaue, from Lat, de and usçue.

Jbg$ 6 Jû* 33— M'est aimable: Is dear to me. Bossuet and Fénelon use also " aimable à " in this almost obsolète sensé. Now cela est aimable à vous means this is very kind of you. Aimable, from Lat. amabUis. Notice that the Frcnch word amiable, which is found in the expression à r amiable, byprivatecontract, by an amicable arrangement, cornes from Lat. amicabilis, Amical, friendly, from Lat. amicalis.

y 4— Est embrasé : Burns with love. Embraser, to set on fire. Notice. — Embrasure, embrasure ; originally a term of fortification, a narrow window in a parapet, throngh which to lay a cannon, or fire a gun ; properly a window whence one sets fire to a gun.

y 5 — Et souhaite : And also Une 8, ne s'achève pas, for et le souhaite, s'il ne s'achève pas ; though tolerated in verse, this ellipsis of the pronoun would not be permitted in prose.

7 y— Ma gloire et mon amour ont pour moi tant d'appas t f so fondly cherish both my honour and my love.

Glory aad Iota an bethmeh aaghty ipeMi.

—W. F. Nokaa,

f II— Tantôtx Just now. Notice. — Je vous Terrai tantôt : I shall see you by and by (in the course of the day). A tantôt is used instead of au revoir, when persons expect to meet again very soon; depuis tantôt six mois: some six months since ; tantôt repeated, expresses alternative ; tantôt l'un tantôt l'autre, some* rimes one sometimes the other ; in several parts of France tantôt is used as a snbstantive, le tantôt, the afternoon. Etym., tant and tôt, like bientôt.

y Ift—Si doux et si cuisant : So sweet and yet so cruel, cuisant, smarting, burning, from cuire, Lat.

coquere.

y 15— Esprits flottant: Wavering sensés, restles» thoughts, irresolute mind. Flotter, from flot, Lat. fluctua, Cf. fluctuate» fluctuating, fluctuation.

f Js>— Par vos commandements: In obédience to you

Page 7 /m/ 22— Dedans: In the serenteenth centuryit was per*

fcctly correct to use ai a prepo>ition dedans* which is now only used m an adveib of place.

The préposition is dans, 7 S3— Déplaisir, grief; numerons examples taken from Corneille show that this word had in his time a much stronger meaning than is nowgiven to it. It meant great sorrow, grief, affliction ; it is another instance of the sensé of a word being weakened by fréquent use, See gêne, page 6, Une 24*

7 24— Remettre mon visage un peu plus à loisir: To

bave a little more time to recorer ray countenance {to compose myself). Loisir (an infinitive used for a s. m.) » to hare permission DOt to work, from Lat. licere.