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(When my troubles are accumulated. Comble, from Lat. cumulus.

Page 58 Une 30 ^-Courage means here, heart. Corneille often uses it in that sense, winch is the one it had in Old French.

59 4 — Ah, qu’il s’en faut encore ! Ah, how far from it !

Notice. — Il ne s* en fallait presque rien, there wanted little or nothing ; S'il n'est pas un fripon il ne s'en faut guère, if he is not a rogue he is next kin to it.

59 il — Après qu’un père mort: Seeing that a father’s

death . . .

59 14 — Ne fait pas : Does not cause.

59 28 — A l’envi de Chimène : Vies with and adores . . .

Chimène. Notice the spelling of envi in the locution à Venvi de, in émulation of, and that of the substantive envie, envy. Envi, a challenge, is a verbal substantive from Old Fr., envier (a term used in gambling, now r envier, to place a further sum on the game), from Lat. invitare. Envie cornes from Lat. invidia.

59 31 — Le ciel vous doit un roi : An allusion to the fact

that a Spanish princess could marry none but a prince of royal blood.

60 7 — Quand pour m’obliger ... : Even though, for

my sake, he were crowned. Notice. — Quand, quand même , quand bien même, though, although, even if, is never used but with the verb in the conditional. Quand vous seriez le dernier des hommes, je ferai ce que l’honneur me prescrit, were you the lowest of mankind, I would do what honour prescribes.

60 8 — Un bien que j’ai donné : I will not take back a

gift once made.

60 10 — Encore un coup : Once more (I shall go and

ratify the gift).