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64 20— Tout de nouveau : Once again, once more (anew).

64 21 — . . . Mon amour n'emploiera point pour moi ni la loi du combat, ni le vouloir du roi : My love will not urge in my favour the law of combat nor the will of the king. Notice.— We should now consider point useless, and say simply, n % emploiera ni la loi du combat, etc. ; but point in Corneille' s line lends greater force to the expression, and should not be thought, what is called in grammars, a négative too many.

64 26— Travaux, exploits : Laborious and glorious enter-

prises, like les doute travaux <P Hercule.

65 10— Pour vous en revancher : As a just return (rétri-

bution), revanche and revancher are now more

frequently used in the sensé of returning bad

for bad than good for good, as is the case hère. 65 17 — Mais à quoi que déjà vous m'ayez condamnée t

But whatever you may already hâve condemned

me to do.

65 20 — Toute votre justice en est-elle d'accord : Does

your sensé of justice entirely approve of it

(agrée to it) ?

65 26— Ne se pouvoir : Impossible. Notice. — That may

be, cela se peut ; Your project may possibly

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sncceed, il se peut faire que rotre projet réussisse ; Nothing eau be better» il ne se peut rien de mieux.

Page 65 Uney^— Cependant: Meanwhile. Cependant in Corneille's timc was frequently osed in the sente of pendant ce temps; it is now hardrjr nsed otherwise than as a conjonction, meaning yet, howerer, stilL 66 .7— Fais-toi si bien priser: Gain so much esteem, rise to such famé»