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60 13 — Que, here, stands for combien, how, how much !

60 18 — Heureux succès, must not be considered as a

pleonasm, for succès, Lat. suc ces sus, properly means the resuit of an action, which may be "heureux or malheureux ; unqualified by any otlier word, succès is always taken in a favourable sense.

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Page 60 Une 23 — Et quoi que le destin puisse ordonner de vous î However destiny may dispose of you, whatever your fate may be.

> 29 — Se rebelle : Re volts. Se révolter takes now the

place of se rebeller, which is becoming obsolète, although rebel and rébellion are still used.

61 15 — Et ce n’est pas assez, pour leur faire la loi,

Que celle du combat et le vouloir du roi : The law of combat, the will of the king, are not strong enough to dictate to them (to my duty and the grief of my bereavement) ; celle, the démonstrative relative pronoun, refers to loi, contained in the idiomatic expression faire la loi . Notice, that in prose we should avoid to make a noun contained in a verbal locution the antécédent of a relative, even though it were, as in this case, used with the article.

5i 18 — Gloire : Honour, sense of duty, self-respect.

5i 21 — Gardez. . . que. . . ne. Same as prenez garde

que ... ne, beware lest.

61 27 — Est-ce trop peu pour vous que d’un coup de

malheur : Is one fatal blow too little for you ? Notice. — Here trop peu que de, as in p. 57, 1. 26. Corneille has also used S est trop peu de, which is now preferred.