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40 14 & 15 — . . . Et ton illustre audace Fait bien revivre en toi les héros de ma race : And by your brigh/

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hardihood my heroic ancestors live again in you.

în thy prowess rare,

Live o’er again the heroes of my race.

— W. F. Nokes.

Page' 40 Une 20 — Comble de mon heur :

Prop of mine âge, and sum of ail my joys !

— W. F. Nokes.

40 27 — Coup d’essai: Maiden-stroke : first combat.

40 31 — Le flatte : Lulls, sootlies it. Notice. — Flatter un

animal, to caress an animal ; flatter l’imagination, to delight the imagination; flatter les caprices, to humour caprices.

41 6 — Je vous l’ai bien rendu : I hâve well repaid.

41 9 — Et d’autant que l’honneur m’est plus cher que le

jour, D’autant plus maintenant je te dois de retour : The more I cherish honour above life, the greater the debt I owe you now.

41 17 — Et vous m’osez pousser à la honte du change:

And you dare urge me to shameful inconstancy (to be shamefuily false to love).

41 19 — Perfide: Faithless. Lat. perfidus , per 2Xi&fides%

faith. The craven knight and the récréant lover.

41 30— Flux : Tide. Lat. fluxns , from Jiuo , I flow.

Notice. — Ebb-tide, reflux, jusant.

42 6 — Se tremperont bien mieux au ^ang des Africains :

Will more nobly be steeped in African blood. 42 9 — Soutenir l’abord : Resist the attack, meet the

assault.

42 10 — Une belle mort : A glorious death. Notice. —

Belle is the fem. of bel , from Lat. bellus , a, um, handsome : as to beau (which is used now before a consonant or an h aspirate), it is another form of bel , which h as become beau, as agnel, agnellus , castel, castellum , anel, anellus, hâve become agneau, château, anneau, lamb, castle, ring.

42 12 -Fais devoir à ton roi son salut à ta perte: Let

your king gain his safety from your loss ; give your life for the safety of your king.