Scene II

33 23 — L'ardeur de Clarisse est égale à vos flammes :

Notice tbis metaphoric style, which prevailed in literature at the time of Corneille.

34 2 — Coiffe abattue : ïïood down.

34 25 —A dormi toute nuit : The suppression of the

article is incorrect ; toute nuit means every night, and not ail night.

34 31 — La valeur n'apprend point la fourbe en son école :

Yalour does not teach deceit in its school. There is some ambiguity in this phrase on account of the double meaning of the French word apprendre , which is at the same time to teach and to learn.

35 7 — j nous laisser duper , nous sommes bien novices :

We must hâve great inexpérience to allow ourselves to be thus deceived.

35 20 — Dorante avecque son audace : See above, note

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