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38 24 — Le divertissement serait rare ou je meure: This

would be great fan, rare sport, on my life 1 . 38 26 — Vous piper en votre art : To cheat you ; hère to

beat you in your very art.

40 13^ Ce sont pièces qu'on vous a faites : They are trioks

which hare been played upon you.

41 10— Cr» grand foudre de guerre: A gr^at warrior.

Foudre is an irregular noun ; It has two genders. Usnally it is féminine, and means thunder; butin the ^m^% foudre de guerre, it is masculine.

43 12^ Grand donneur de bourdes : Greatly fond of play-

ing tricks and taking other people în.

42 Xh^' Je fais partit hgmen ^nqueroute à tous autres:

By thisinaniage I hâve rendered every other impossible ; yiz., I am protected against every other.

44 Q^^Vous eouehez d'imposture et tous osez jurer: You

make show of falsehood, and nevertheless you dare to swear. The expression is borrowed from the game of cards, as coucher de f argent sur un: carte, to lay money on a card, now obsolète ; but some analogous idioms still remain, as coucher sur le papier, &c.

44 11 — J^ai donne cette baie à bien d'autres qu* à vous: I

took many other people in, in the same way.

See above, page 16, line 22.