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24 20 —Me ferait malade : It ought to be me rendrait

malade.

24 25 — Quelque Amphion nouveau : Amphion, son of

J upiter and Antiope, a great musician, who is said to hâve moved stones by the power of his lyre. The walls of Thebes were built by this magic influence, according to mythology.

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“ Dictus et Amphion Thebanæ conditor urbis ” (Hor. A.P. 394) :

Aux accents d’Ampliion les pierres se mouvaient Et sur les murs de Thèbe en ordre s elevaient.

■s Taris voit tous les jours de ces métamorphosés.

Notice tlie idiomatic de ; it means quelques unes de ces métamorphoses .

2— Dam tout le Trê aux Clercs : This namewas given in the middle âge to a field near Pans, situated. on the left bank of the Seine, near the famous Tour de Nesle, in tbe space occupied now by tbe Faubourg St. Germain. It was thus named because it was tbe playground of tbe clerks and University scbolars. It was also tbe traditional place of meeting î or duellists.

4—, J)u palais Cardinal : Now tbe Palais-Koyal, buiit bv Jacques le Mercier on tbe rums ot tbe Hôtels de Mercoeur and de Rambouillet.

Richelieu bad a marble tablet placed over tbe porcb witb tbe inscription Palais Cardinal, wbicb, tbougb criticised, remamed till tbe time when Louis XIY. inbabited tins palace, wbicb Richelieu bad bequeathed bim. Ibis part of Paris, now one of tbe most peopled, says Voltaire, “was only formed of meadows surrounded witb ditcbes wben tbe Cardinal Richelieu selected it for tbe site of bis palace.

15 —Te puisse être avenu : Now advenu . Avenir, or advenir (L. advenir e), means what happens unexpectedly ; deriy. aventure , hence par aventure = par hasard.

27—, Ah! Monsieur, j’en frémi : The old spelling frémi, instead of frémis, vas more rational, there is no s in Latin in the first persony) em , the « is the mark of the second person. (bee above, p. 22, line 17.)