vous {i.e. the jewels) auriez bien dû, might well hâve

434. le fais imprimer, put him {i.e. his tragédies) into print. Familiar.

446. trouve, shall find, in my then unruffled good humor. To render by the présent tense would disguise and even pervert the sensé, excellents. Note the irregularity to the eye in the rhyme.

458. prononcer mes vœux, take my vows as a novice, for she could hâve taken no permanent vows till she had been for some time in a religions community.

472. couronne ducale, ducal coronet, not " crown." See Encyc. Brit. xi. 71 1.