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gg 28 — Toute tierce , dit-on : Tiers , adj., F. tierce, . L.

tertius ; only used in a few phrases, as un tiers, one third, une tierce personne ; and also m fencing, en tierce , in opposition to en quarte (inside and outside). >

0j i JSJe raille pas que tu ne me déplaises : , Que tu

déplaises = si tu ne veux pas me déplaire. This construction is obsolète now, especially because the first verb is in the impérative. # q<j 7 — Je V entends au rebours : I understand ît in the

reverse. ,

07 15 — Sa compagne , ou je meure, a beaucoup d agrément :

Ou je meure ; we hâve met several times already with this phrase, which was evidently a common oath at the time. A ,

07 17 — De mon premier amour f ai Vâme un peu genee :

Gêné, from gêne, from géhenne, -Lat. gehenna , Greek 'ysewoc, Heb. gèhinnom, name of a valley near Jérusalem where the idolatrous Israélites had sacrificed their children to the god Moloch; hence the place of condemnation and forment in modem times. The word gêne has lost a good deal of its original strength, and simply means an embarrassment, a trouble.