SCENE VII

64 20 — Tout de nouveau : Once again, once more (anew).

64 21 — ... Mon amour n’emploiera point pour moi ni la

loi du combat, ni le vouloir du roi : My love will not urge in my favour the law of combat nor the will of the king. Notice. -We should now consider point useless, and say simply, Remploiera ni la loi du combat , etc. ; but point in Corneille’s line lends greater force to the expression, and should not be thought, what is called in grammars, a négative too many.

64 26 — Travaux, exploits : Laborious and glorious entCi.^

prises, like les douze travaux d' Hercule.

65 10 — Pour vous en revancher : As a just return (rétri-

bution), revanche and revancher are now more frequently used in the sense of returning bad for bad than good for good, as is the case here.

65 17 — Mais à quoi que déjà vous m’ayez condamnée :

But whatever you may already hâve condemned me to do.

65 20 — Toute votre justice en est-elle d’accord : Does

your sense of justice entirely approve of it (agréé to it) ?

65 26— Ne se pouvoir : Impossible. Notice. — That may

be, cela se peut; Your project may possibly

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succeed, il se peut faire que votre projet réussisse ; Nothing can be better, il ne se peut rien de mieux.

Page 65 line 34 — Cependant : Meanwhile. Cependant in Corneille’s time was frequently used in the sense of pendant ce temps ; it is now hardly used otherwise than as a conjunction, meaning yet, however, still.

66 7 — Fais-toi si bien priser : Gain so much esteem,

rise to such famé.

ETYMOLOGICAL VOCABULARY