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57 34— Pour être: Because you are, though you are»

(Your being valiant does not make you a king's son.)

58 3— Est-il dit que : Is it so fated? Is il my destiny

that ... ?

5S 7— Si jamais il n'obtient sur un si long tourment : If it (my heart) ne ver obtains from so long a torture • • • We should now say obtenir de • • •

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aS— Dans un comble d'ennui t When my grief it deepest ; when my affliction is at its height»

(When my troubles zxtaccumulated. Comble, from Lat. cumulus.

Page 58 lime 30 —Courage means hère, heart Corneille often uses it in that sensé, which is the one it had in Old French.

59 4 — Ah, qu'il s'en faut encore ! Ah, how far from it ! Notice. — // ne s'en fallait presque rien, there wanted Uttle or nothing ; Su n'est pat un fripon il ne M'en faut guère, if ne is not a rogue he is next kin to it.

59 II— Après au un père mort: Seeing that a father's deatn • • .

59 14— Ne fait pas : Does not cause.

59 a8 — A l'envi de Chimène : Vies with and adores . . . Chiméne. Notice the spelling of envi in the locution à Penvi de, in émulation of, and that of the subatantfoe envie, envy. Envi, a challenge, is a verbal substantive from Old Fr. v envier. {% term used in gambling, now renvier, to place a further sum on the game), from Lat. invitare. Envie cornes from Lat. invidia.

59 3 1 — ke ôel vous doit un roi : An allusion to the fact

that a Spanish princess could marry none but a prince of royal blood.

60 7— Quand pour m'obliger ... : Even though, for

my sake, he were crowned. Notice. — Quand, quand mime, quand bien m fai,though,although, even if, is never used but with the verb in the conditionaL Quand vous seriez le dernier des hommes, je ferai ce que l'honneur me prescrit, were you the lowest of mankind, I would do what honour prescribefe.

60 8 — Un bien que j'ai donné : I will not take back a gift once made.

60 10— Encore un coup: Once more (I shall go and ratify the gift).