en, like a

360. /a, i.e. the musical note of that name, équivalent to A natural. "The sixth note of the ut-scale. The second string of some instruments, for instance the violin " (Littré).

367. En sol, i.e. in the key of G. Cf. 360. Corelli (1653- 171 3), a celebrated composer for the violin as well as the most noted player upon that instrument in his time.

375. paria, outcast. Properly the name of the lowest Hindoo caste, and so of doubtful propriety in the Italy of 1750, where it might indeed be known but hardly familiar. Observe that in this couplet d'hier is two syllables and fier one, This is a metr'ical blemish. Cp. 471, 472, and the following note.

388, 389. Note the enjambement^ or lack of rhetorical pause, after parmi. This metrical blemish is more common in modem than in classical French poetry.