SCENE VIII

27 4 — Je prends part à votre déplaisir : I sympathise

with your grief.

27 8— Couler à gros bouillons de : Gush forth from.

27 15 — Sans force et sans couleur : Faint and pallid.

This use of couleur is very old in the language.

. . . La dolor Me faisoit muer la color .

— M Roman de la Rose."

Grief made me change colour.

27 17— A ce récit funeste : For so grievous a taie.

27 26 — Et hâtoit ma poursuite : And urged me to claim

redress.

28 2 — Qu’un jeune audacieux triomphe de leur gloire :

That an audacious stripling triumph over their glory, sport in their blood, and brave their memory.

28 7 — Mon allégeance : My consolation, my relief.

Allégeance, from the verb alléger , to relieve, Ital. allegiare , Provençal aleviar , Lat. allevare , from ad and levis. Notice. — Allégeance, allegiance, from Lat. alligo , I bind.

28 13 — Tout ce que, for tous ceux que. The former is

scornful.

28 1 5 — Qu’on est digne d’envie ... s How enviable is

he who when losing . . .

28 17 — Et qu’un long âge apprête : And what a wretched

fate a long life, &c.

28 19 — Longs travaux : Long toils, long séries of exploits.

28 23 — Ce que n’a pu jamais : Cf —

. . . captique dolls, lacrymisque coactîs,

Quos neque Tydides, nec Larissæus Achilles,

Non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae.

— Æn- ü., *196.

NOTES

Fage 28 line 29 —Blanchis sous le harnois : Grown grey in the toils of war ; literally, under the harness, which originally signified only the armour of a knight.

29 3 — Sur moi seul doit tomber l’éclat de la tempête s

Against me alone must the tempest rage ; on me alone, my liege, be ail your wrath !

29 17 — Remettez : We should now say reconduisez.

29 18 — Sa foi : His word, parole ; Don Diego’s word

shall hold him prisoner in my court, palace.

29 22 — Croître : To increase. Notice. — We should now

use accroître in that sense. Croître is a neute* verb ; Lat. crescere