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SCENE IL

Page 44 Une 13— Autre que moi : We should require now. Aucun autre que moi, no other than I, none else than I . . .

44 16 — A moi seul . . To me alone, to-day, still permit

a tear.

44 21 — Je l’entends partout publier hautement : I hear

him everywhere loudly proclaimed ... Publier quelqu'un is unusual now.

44 23— Ce discours populaire : These praises bestowed by

the people ; these approving shouts of the people.

45 7 — Va poursuivre sa mort : Is going to sue for his

death.

45 8 — Ce devoir: This sense, this fulfilment, of your

duty.

45 18 — Est d’accord de cette vérité, que : Does recognise

the truth that . . . agréés with everyone that . . . See note, p. 19, 1. 12.

45 21 — Tu poursuis en sa mort la ruine publique : It is

the public ruin you sue for when you sue for his death.

45 25 — Et pour être punis avons-nous part a?i crime :

And must we be punished, we who had no hand in the crime? (Had we anvthing to do with the crime, that we should be punished ?) Shall we be punished, guiltless of the crime ? 45 30 — Ce n’est pas à moi : It does not become me to

hâve so much kindness.

45 33 — Un roi le caresse : A king praises him.

45 34 — Qu or que , representing another conjunction.

See p. 31,1. 17.

46 I — J’irai souj mes cyprès accabler ses lauriers : I

shall go and crush his glory with my grief.

His laurels ’neath my cypress Fil entomb.

— W. F. Nokeiv.

46 4— D’un plus illustre rang : Of a nobler kind — that

is to say, that ranks higher in men’s estimation.

46 5- Donne : Here, gives up, abandons, sacrifices.

Vage 46 line 6 — C’est assez que d’éteindre ta flamme : It is enough to quench your love.

“ Unkindncss should hâve quenched her love/*

—Shakespeare.

46 9 — Aussi bien : And besides.

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