GENERAL NOTES

Thb notes and explanations wîll be found at the end of each play. They are arranged in accordance with the acts and scènes, with références to the lirus in each page, not reckoning the names of the dramatis pttsoru^ the running title, or the stage directions.

In the seventeenth century the two letters ai preceding the consonants s and t in the infinitives, présent and împerfect tenses, and conditional mood, of some verbs, used invariably to be written oi, as

For connaître

one finds

connoStre.

M je connais

tt

connois.

„ il connaît

connoît

„ je voudrais

voudrais.

99 il voudrait

It

voudrait»

M il fallait, &c,

falloit, &c

The Editors hâve preferred pointing this out in a to altering the text

PHEDRE