vœux, prayers hère. Cp

490. dépit alludes to the sentiments of Scène 5. See note to 256.

504. Note the metrical blemish. We cannot make the final pause in this line without distorting the sensé. This enjafnbement or overflow of one line into the foUovving is much rarer in Coppée than in many of his contemporaries and most of his romantic predecessors. To the présent writer it seems everywhere and always a fault. See Luthier, 388.