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40 14& 15 — . . . Et ton illustre audace Fait bien revivre en toi les héros de ma race: And by your bright

hardihood my heroic ancestors Kve again in you.

In thy prowess rare, Lire o'er again the heroes of my race.

— W. F. Nokb».

Page 40 //«^ 20— Comble de mon heur :

Prop of mine âge, and sum of ail my joys !

— W. F. Nokbs.

40 27 — Coup d'essai : Maiden-stroke : first combat.

40 31 — Le flatte : Lulls, soothes it Notice. — Flatter un

animal, to caress an animal ; flatter l'imagination, to delight the imagination; flatter les caprices, to humour caprices.

41 6 — Je vous l'ai bien rendu : I hâve well repaid.

41 9 — Et d'autant que l'honneur m'est plus cher que le

jour, D'autant plus maintenant je te dois de retour : The more I cherish honour above life, the greater the debt I owe you now.

41 17 — Et vous m'osez pousser à la honte du change : And you dare urge me to shameful inconstancy (to be shamefully false to love).

41 19— Perfide : Faithless. Lat. perfidus, per and fides, faith. The craven knlght and the recréant lover.

41 30— Flux : Tide. Lat. Jiuxus, from fluo, I flow.

Notice. — Ebb-tide, reflux, jusant.

42 6 — Se tremperont bien mieux au sang des Africains :

Will more nobly be steeped in African blood.

42 9 — Soutenir l'abord: Resist the attack, meet the

assault.

42 10 — Une belle mort : A glorious death. Notice.— Belle is the fem. of bd 9 from Lat. bellus, a, um, handsome : as to beau (which is used now before a consonant or an h aspirate), it is another form of bd 9 which has become beau, as agnel, agnellus, castel, castellum, anel, andlus y hâve become agneau, château, anneau, lamb, castle, ring.

42 12 — Fais devoir à ton roi son salut à ta perte: Let your king gain his safety from your loss ; give your life for the safety of your king.

ACT IV

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Page 42 Une 2$ — Le sais-tu bien : Do you know it for certain? are you certain of it?

42 28— Leur abord : Their approach. Notice.— Les côtes

d'Angleterre sont de difficile aôord, the coasts of England are of difficult access ; A son abord dans l'île, on his landing in the island ; Avoir Vaèord doux, gracieux, to hâve a sweet, engaging manner.

43 8— Fait sonner les louanges : Sings his praises. The

French expression is very similar to the English one. In Old French sonner de la lyre, de la harpe, etc., meant to play on the lyre, on the harp, etc. ; and as thèse instruments were used to accompany the voice, there was a close connection between sonner and chanter. In Old French poetry sonneurs is sometimes used for chanteurs, songsters, singers. Notice. — To sound one' s own praises, faire soi-même son éloge ; The town rings with his famé, la ville retentit de sa renommée.

43 11— De quel œil voit-il ... : What does he think of • . . (How does he look upon • . .)?

43 21— Pour avoir soin de lui, faut-il que ... : Because I care for him, does it follow that I should forget myself ?

43 27— Les premiers effets qu'ait produit sa valeur : (This

garb of mourning) is the first fruits of his valour. Notice the subjunctive after the relative preceded by a comparative, or any word indicating comparîson, such v&pretnier, dernier, etc.

Die, for dise, présent subj. of dire, occurs frequently in the writings in prose, and specially in verse of the seventeenth century. This form is no longer used. Cf Molière, " Les Femmes Savantes," Act III. se. 2, the famous " sonnet" of Trissotin :—

Faites-la sortir, quoi qu'on die, De votre riche appartement, etc.

44 3 — Pompe : Hère apparel of woe, weeds of woe.

Notice. — C'est un entrepreneur des pompes

funèbres, he is an undertakei ; Être enseveli, avec une grande fempe, to.be buried in s'tate.

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P*g* 44 &'** 13— Autre que moi : We should require now. Aucun

autre que moi, no other than I, none else

than I . • • 44 16 — A moi seul • • • : To me alone, to-day, still permit

a tear.

44 21— Je l'entends partout publier hautement : I hear

him every where loudly proclaimed • • • Pub'

lier quelqu'un is unusual now.

44 23 — Ce discours populaire : Thèse praises bestowed by

the people; thèse approving shouts of the people.

45 7 — Va poursuivre sa mort : Is going to sue for his

death.

45 8— Ce devoir : This sensé, this fulfilment, of your duty.

45 18 — Est d'accord de cette vérité, que : Does recognise the truth that • . • agrées with everyone that . . . See note, p. 19, 1. 12.

45 21 — Tu poursuis en sa mort la ruine publique : It is the public ruin you sue for when you sue for his death.

45 25 — Et pour être punis avons-nous part au crime : And must we be punished, we who had no hand in the crime ? (Had we anythiog to do with the crime, that we should bé punished ?) Shall we be punished, guiltless of the crime ?

45 30 — Ce n'est pas à moi : It does not become me to hâve so much kindness.

45 33— Un roi le caresse : A king praises him.

45 34— (?"' or que, representing another conjuuction.

Seejp. 31, L 17.

46 1— J'irai sous mes cyprès accabler ses lauriers: I

shall go and crush his glory with my grief.

His laurels 'neath my cypress Fil entomb.

— W. F. NOKEfc.

46 4— D'un plus illustre rang : Of a nobler kind — that is to say, that ranks higher in men's estimation.

46 5- Donne : Hère, gives up, abandons, sacrifices.

est assez que d'étei to quench your love.

"UnUadaesiihouldli

46 9— Aussi bien : And besides.

Açc 46 line 6— C'est assez que d'éteindre ta flamme : It is enoogh

:hj

UnktBdaesi ihould harc quenched her love."

— Shaicsspkaul

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46 16 — Race: Might perhaps be hère translated by

£&mf of so many sires. . . .

46 17— De la tienne : Refers to valeur.