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24 20 Me ferait malade : It ought to be m^ rendrait
maltde.
24 2ô—Qwlquê Amphicn nouveau: Amphion, son of
, Jupiter and Antiope, a great musician, who i8>
said to hâve moved stones by the power of hfs- ! lyre. The walls of Thebes were built by i hia
^ magie influence, according to mytholcgy.
98 LE BIENTEUR.
''Diotiu et Amphîon Thebanss conditor nrbU " (Hor. A.P. 894) :
Aux acœnU d'Amphion les pierres se moavaieiit Et sur les mors de Thèbe en ordre s'élevaient.
Ta je 25 Une 1— Ptfrâ wÀt tout leê jourê iê ùm mitamùrphoêêa :
Notioe the idionuiitie de ; it means quelques unes de eee wtitÊmwrphoeee,
C 5 Z'-^DeoM tout le Prê aux Cleret : This name was gi ven
in the middle âge to m field near Paris, sitnated on the lef t bank of the Seine near the f amona Tonr de Neele, in the space oocnpied now hj the Fanbonrg St. G^main. It was thns named beoaose it was the playgproand of the clerks and Univenatr scholars. It was also the traditional plaoe'of meeting for dblliste.
25 4 — Du palaie Cardinal: Now the Palais-Bojnftl, bnilt
by Jacques le Meroier on tiie mins of the Hôtels de Meroœor and de Bambonillet.
Bichelien had a marble tablet plaoed over the poroh with the inscription " Palais Cardinal,*' whioh, thongh oriticised, remained till the time when Louis XIV. inhabited this palace, which Bichelien had bequeathedhim. " This part of Paris, now one of the most peopled," says Voltaire, " was onlyformed of meadows snrronnded with ditches when the Cardinal Bichelien selected it for the site of his palace."
25 15 — Te puisse être avenu: Now advenu. Avenir ^ or
advenir (L. advenire)^ means what happena unexpectedly ; deriv. aventure, hence par aventure = par hasard,
25 21^ Ah! Monsieur i f en frémi: The old spelling
frémi, instead of frémis, was more rational ; there is no s in Latin in the first person/r^mo, the s is the mark of the second person. (See above, p. 22, line 17.)
27 5 — Elle est de fort bons lieux : From very good quar-
ters, she belongs to a yery respectoble f amily ; lieu in that sensé is now obsolète.
27 6 — Que votre humeur souhaite: Formerly humeur
meant disposition of mind, either good or bad ; now it means more of ten bad temper, or at least tendency to change one's f ancies. Souhaiter, der. f r. 0. Fr. hait (jré, plaisir, inclination).
Page 27 Une l^^Sachtms, à cela près : Tooconoise. i^avotrcannot
be nsed withont an object. It means, let os know the f acts for ail that. A cela prU bas generally another meaning, viz., toith that exception,
27 10 — Je n^ ai jamais oui : See note, 80. vi., Ist aot.
27 22 — Qu'en son quartier souvent: Quartier had tben
about thesameaoceptatîonaB tbe English word quarter. New it means neigbboarhood, or a part of a town, ezcept in snoh phrases as quartier général^ quartier-mattre.
27 25— X« second de mptemhre: In modem Frencli it
ought to be ^ deux septembre, French in the time of Corneille had many reminisoences of the Latin oonstmction.
27 20 —Me cache en sa ruelle: Hides me in her alcôve.
Huelle is the diminutive of rue, street ; and most Gommonly means a lane.
28 4 — Avait lors à souffrir: See note above.
28 l'ù^If^ayant point dhorlogiers: The présent ortho-
graphy is horloger, bnt in the seventeenUi oentnry they said indifferently horloger or horlogier, henoe horlogiers,
28 19 — Fait marcher le déclin : Obsolète (main-spring of
firearms), the proper word now wonld be la détente. Le déolin (trigger) est^ says Littré, le ressort par leqnel leohien d'un fusil ou d'un pistolet s'abat sar le bassinet.
29 11— Je changeai d'un seul mot la tempête en bonaee:
Bonaee rather obsolète ; oalm weather, a smooth sea. Cf. <' Le Cid," Aot ii., so. 3, ** Un orage si prompt qui trouble une bonaee." This word is seldom used. Do not confound with it the homophonous familiar adjective bonasse, simple-minded, good-natured.
29 27>—Le bonhomme en tient-il f Is the good old man
taken in 7
30 12 — J^ étais dans le panneau : 1 Yr9A cekXxght, Panneau,
snare, trap. Panneau, pièoe de bois ou de vitre enfermée dans une bordure ; aussi filet carré, d*où la looution, donnei' dans le pamuau, (Scbeler.)
31 8 — Coule-toi là-dedans : Glide within, insinuate yoarself within.
il 20 — Vienne encore un procès: Let another la wsuit corne.
Notice this subj. without the conjunction.
zoo L£ MENTEUR.
ACT IIL
8 C BN E I.
Tagi 82 Ufu 6 — Mon heur en est extrême : See abore. Seur is
. hère employed in the sensé of bonheur ^ but orig^ally it meant only luck, either good or bad. Cf. '* Tant d'heur et tant de gloire'' (Ginna).
32 lS—3fon affaire est d'accord, et la chose vaut faite :
Bather too ooncise to be very clear : the affair is planned and setUed, and the matter is a»
good as if done. Cf. Mélite, ii., 6 : Cela vont fait, monsieur.
