SCENE I

1$ 3 — C’en est fait : It is done. But, since the bîow is

struck, there’s no help for it.

35 4 — Qu’aux volontés du roi, etc. : Let your proud

spirit bend to the king’s will ; he takes this much to heart, etc.

J5 7 — Aussi. The complété adverbial locution is aussi

bien, the fact is that, and besides, indeed. Aussi means also : vous aussi ; before an adjective or an adverb it is synonymous with autant or tellement : aussi populaire, as or so popular; when a conjunction it means “c’est pourquoi”: Il me priait de t’écrire, aussi le faisje, he begged me to write to you, therefore I do it. Aussi is now employed only in an affirmative sense ; the négative corresponding to it is non plus : I also dislike it, je ne l’aime pas non plus.

Page 15 line 10 — Qui passent le commun des satisfactions : Which call for more than common réparation.

5$ 11 — A son gré : At his pleasure, if he will. Gré,

Provençal grat ; Ital., grato ; Lat., gratum* There are numerous examples of atum changed into é : pratum , pré, meadow ; curatum , curé, one who holds a cure ; peccatum , péché, sin, &c.

*5 15 — Pour conserver tout ce que j’ai d’estime î To pre-

serve my famé unsullied.

15 18 — Pour le faire abolir : To cause it to be remitted.

The king alone can abolish a crime — that is, pardon the guilty person, and remit the punish-

ment.

16 5 — D’un sceptre qui . . . The Count interrupts Don

Arias, continuing the latter’s sentence according to his own mind : Le pouvoir souverain d’un sceptre qui.

E$ 8 — Remettre : Literally, to put back ; here, to bring back ; let reason bring your senses back. Notice. — L’usage du lait est ce qui l’a remis, a milk-diet recovered him. Remettez-vous, de grâce, for heaven’s sake compose yourself. Ne vous remettez- vous pas son visage? don’t you know his face again ?

12 — Du tout: At ail. Ne ... du tout, not at ail, never. Notice. — Que pensez- vous du tout, what do you think of the whole ? Il ne pense point du tout, he never thinks.

1$ E4— Le sort en est jeté : The die is cast. Notice. —

Most words ending in rt join the r to the folio wing vowel in pronunciation (not the t)

“ le sor(t) en est jeté fort , meaning “ very,* is an exception : il est fort aimable (for-taimable).

8$ Avec : Here notwithstanding, in spite of, for ail

your laurels. La foudre, the thunderbolt ; used metaphorically for the king’s anger. Laurels were supposed to preserve from lightning (foudre, Lat. fulgurem). Notice. — Foudre, s.m.y un foudre de guerre, a thunder-bolt of war, a great captain, a hero.

sâ ES— Non pas sans effet : Certainly not without effect.

Notice. — Pas used here tx> strengthen the négative, as with ne.

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