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19 4— Fais agir ta constance en ce coup de malheur t Call your firmness to your help in this sudden misfortune.

19 6 — N'est couvert que d'un peu de nuage: Is but slightly overcast

19 8 — Outré d'ennuis : Overwbelmed with sorrows, woe-

worn. Notice. — Ennui was a much st ronger term in the seventeenth century than it is now. Etym. formerly enui, meantng annoyance, pain, hatred; Spanish enojo, Old Venetian inodio.

In the Glosses of Cassel (Charlemagne's time) we hâve in odio habui—i.e,, I was sick and tired of. — Brachet. Outré, past part, of \ outrer, from outre, Ital. oltre, Provençal oltra,

Lat. ultra, beyond, over ; hence outrer, to exaggerate, to go beyond (what is reasonable or true). Lat. u bicornes in many French

words: columba, colombe, a dove; mundus, monde, world ; plumbum, plomb, lead ; &c,

fiage 19 Um 9 — Bonace : a calm at sea ; frequently nsed metaphorically in the seventeenth century. In modem French it is spelt bottasse, from Ital. bonaccia, Lat. bonus. Ace, asse are terminations with a "péjorative" sensé. C'est un homme bonasse (weak, foolish), et peu respecté dans sa famille.

19 II— Je n'en saurois douter : I cannot doubt it. Notice that savoir, in the sensé oî pouvoir, is used in the conditional only, and with the signification of the présent tense; the négative is not strengthened.

19 la— D'accord : Consenting, agreed. Notice.— Je suis d'accord avec vous, I agrée with you ; D'accord, granted ; J'en demeure d'accord, I grant it ; D'un commun accord, unanimously.

19 14— Au malheureux moment: At the fatal moment when . . • Notice. — Que for où, dans lequel, in which. This use of que for a préposition and a relative pronoun was very common in Corneille's time ; it is rare now.

19 19— Impitoyable à ... ; Without pity or mercy for . . .

19 ao— Que tu vas me coûter de pleurs : How many tears vou will cost me. Que stands hère for combien. Notice. — Que de monde il y a dans les rues ! what a quantity of people there is in the streets ! Que vous aimes à parler ! how much you like to talk ! Qu'il est grand ! how tall neis!

19 IS— L'a fait naître : Gave rise to it. Notice.— L'esprit de parti a fait naître de nouveaux troubles, party spirit bred new disturbances ; Nos plus grands plaisirs naissent de nos besoins, our greatest pleasures spring from our wants.

19 34— -Accommoder : Reconcile. Notice. — I can accom* modate you with two or three, je puis vous en fournir deux ou trois ; There is room enough hère to accommodate the whole family, il y a ici de quoi loger toute la famille.

19 96— Fera l'impossible : Literally, will do what is impossible ; will do its utmost.

19 28 — De si mortels affronts : Such deadly insults.

19 39— On fait agir t They put into play ; they employ.

Pa&e 20 Bne J— Fins que je ne l'espère s Mbre than I hope for it Notice.— "Ne in the subordinate danse in obédience to this rnle : after comparatives of inequality " ne " mnst be used in the subordinate clause when the principal one il neither négative nor interrogâtive : C'est antre chose que je "ne "pensais. (Autreand autrement imply comparison because what is différent, for a thing, must hâve something more or less than that thing.) Vous écrivez mieux que vous ** parlez $ Il est plus riche qu'on ne croit

90 17 — Arrêtent Notice hère the présent instead of the future ; the présent is much more expressive, and gives a greater idea of Chimène's influence over Rodrigue than the future would ; she bas but to say a word, and her wishes are accomplished.

90 18 — Quel comble à mon ennui 1 'Tis the crowning of my grief ! (how full my cup of woe 1) Comble, Lat cumulus, which signifies a summit in several Mediseval texts.

90 21— Au feu qui me l'engage : To the love that binds

him to me.

91 I — Je n'ai plus de souci : I hâve no more anxiety.

- Souci, care, a verbal substantive from soucier, Lat sollicitare (by contraction to sdVcitarc, whence Old French solder). Cf. solliciter, to solicit ; Solliciter des suffrages, to canvass.