Scène II

83 23 — V ardeur dé Clarisse est égale â vos flammes:

Notice this metaphoric style, which prevailed in literatnre at the time of Corneille.

84 2 - Coiffe abattue : Hood down.

34 25—^ dormi toute nuit: The sappresaion of the

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

84 SI— La valeur n'apprend point la fourbe en son école :

Valoor does not teach deceit in its school.

There is some ambigoity in this phrase on accoont of the doable meaniog of the French Word apprendre, which is at the same time to teach and to leam.

35 'i^A nous laisser duper, nous sommes bien novices:

We must hâve great inexpérience to allow oarselves to be thos deoeived.

83 20 — Dorante aveeque son audace: See above, note

page 22, Une 18.

SCEKB III.

86 20 — Sur chaque occasion tranchent des entendus: On

every sabject they assume airs of compétence . Sur is not satisfactory hère ; m would be more correct. Trancher de, tOBJ^ximezinot, is generally constructed with a noun or adjective, not with a participle ; ** trancher da gentilhomme, trancher du grand seigneur."