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63 3 — J* ai bien voulu : I brought myself to, I took it up

myself to . . . This expression has here a stronger sense than the one generally given to it in familiar style, “1 condescended to.”

63 8 — J’ai dû cette vengeance à qui m’a mise au jour :

I owed this revenge to whom I owed my life, to the author of my life.

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Page 63 line 20— Sors d’erreur : Be undeceived.

63 23 — Je venois du combat lui raconter l’issue : The

order in prose would be : je venois lui raconter l’issue du combat.

63 24 — Dont son cœur est charmé : Who has charmed

her heart, who enthralls her heart.

63 35 — Gagner un moment d’audience : Obtain a

moment’s hearing.

64 4 — Une amour : In Corneille’s works amour in the

singular is generally made fem., and not unfrequently masc. Nowadays in prose amour , love, is masc. in the singular, fem. in the plural ; amour may be made féminine in poetry. Amour , meaning the God of Love, is masc. in the sing. and in the plural.

64 8 — Ta gloire est dégagée, et ton devoir est quitte :

Your honour is no longer at stake, your duty daims no more.