Jh suis féru d^amour, i, e. Vamour m'a frappé au

coeur. FéHr (old) =ifrapper^ but used only in a few locutions, e. gr., sans coup férir.

12. Théophile de Viau, generally known to letters as Théophile. A French poet of some repute, 1591- 1626, with great but misused powers. He wrote verse, and a tragedy of his, ** Pyrame et Thisbé," had some prominence. Conspicuous for his reckless manner of life, and, largely in conséquence thereof, he died in misfortune and disgrâce.

Nacré, vulcain, Varieties of butterflies.

Évasait mollement. Gracef ully broadened. Évaser =élargir graduellement vers Vorifice.

B lui en coûtait trop. It was too painf ul for her, required of her too great an effort.

Voua m*en voulez. You are angry, vexed, with me. Cf. exs. p. 145, 1. 6, 10; p. 200, p. 24.

Tourne. Revolves, i. e., her tongue is too active

(eUe ne sait pas la retenir à propos).

Il y aurait de quoi. It would be enough to.

Pùur tout de bon. Seriously, "for good and ail.'* H faisait si bon. It was so pleasant.

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141k 87. Reine âee prés. Meadow-sweet or queen-of-the^ meadows, an omamental flower of a widely spread genus.

147. 4. SaHoaire, Lythrum salicaria or "looeetrife,'' a wild flower with showy yellow or purple flowers. It flourishâB in the moiature of lowlands,

4. Centaurée, Centaurea, an extensive genus of plants allied to the thistle. A scented variety, called the Bweet sultan, with purple, white, or yeUow flowers, is cultivated as a garden <»:nament. Other varieties are known under the popular names of bachelcMrs' button, comflower, bluebottle.

13. Daphnie, in Oreek mythology, a Sicilan shepherd, said to hâve been the inyentor of bucolic poetry. The name is common with the x)astoral i)oets (Theocritiis, Virgil) for designating a love-lom shepherd. The name is associated aiso with Chloe in a Greek pastoral romance, called Daphnis and Chloe, attributed to Longus (4th or 5th century), a Greek sophist, which recounts the sentimental pastoral lif e of two levers in a manner that has been much imitated in modem times.

18. Cydope, One of a race of pastoral giants described in the Odyssey, Bk. IX. Later poets locate them in Sicily and describe them as one-eyed. The only one celebrated by name was Polyphemus, who, according to the legend, became jealous of Acis, a beautiful Sicilian youth beloved by Galatea, and slew him together with his sweetheart by crushing both nnder a rock (cf. the Fontaine Médicis in tbe Luxembourg Garden at Paris with a group commemoratîng this thème). The allusion in the text is probably to this tragedy.

J30, Sminthée, Smintheus, meaning mouse Apollo or

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F«ge. Line.

mouse god, in Greek mythology a siimame of Apollo given the latter in the Iliad by his favorite priest. Apollo was so named as proteotor of mice, since thèse were fed in his temple, or, as destroyer of mlce, when this yermin — once sacred — became a pest in the eyes of later générations.