SCENE III

Page 63 line 16 — Lu vice où je te voi: Où — dans lequel . Notice the frequent use of adverbs of place instead of relative pronouns in many languages.

64 9 — Le conte qu'hier au soir tu m'en fis publier : The

story which last night you caused me to circulate. Notice the definite past. In modem French the indefinite past, especially in the north and centre of France, is used in preference.

64 16 — Que ton effronterie a surpris ma vieillesse : Sur-

pris = trompé.

64 19 — Tu me fiais donc servir de fable et de risée : You

make me the fable and the sport of every one. 64 26 — Ne dut tout accorder à ton contentement : Did you

not know that my consent was to yield everything to make you content, happy ? This phrase is not very clear.

64 28 — Consentait à tes yeux l'hymen d'une inconnue : Con-

sentir is only used now with the préposition à . It ought therefore to be consentait à tes yeux à l'hymen d'une inconnue .

65 7 — Une assez rude touche : There is a pretty severe

trial for your skill.

65 20 — Que venaient ses beautés d'allumer dans mon âme :

Irregular construction = que ses beautés

venaient d'allumer , had just lighted up.

65 29 — Tu me fourbes encor : Fourber = tromper ; deriv.

probably from fourbir , Eng. furbish , Ital. forbire , O.H.G-. f ùrban, to clean, to rub. It is by a similar metaphor, says Scheler, that

the Greek has produced the expressions, IrnTpifA/aa, niplrpifASAOL, cunning fellow, rascal, from the verb rp/j3 sty, to rub. Cf. also polisson, from polir, to polisb, and fripon , wbicb Diez dérivés from Old Scandin. hripa , to be quick and agile. < .

Paae 66 21 — Que tu ne mourras point que de la main a un pere. .

J Point is here expletive and nseless ; ne... que îs

enough to express not...but.