ACT V
SCENB I.
€0 13 — Vous avez feuilleté le Digeste â Foitlers : 8ee
note 7, page 16. Poitiers, town of France, formerly capital of Poitou, known by the Romans as Limousin, aflerwards took the name from its inhabitants, the Picteoi or Pictoues.
€0 l9^AIais un peu mal en biens : But rather badly off
as regards fortune.
61 15-~D'une longue hantitie : Fréquentation, haunting,
intimacy.
62 12 — Vous en tenez au»si bien comme nous : See above
page 29, line 25.
62 16 — Vos ehers collatéraux s'en trouveront fort bien :
That will comfort your collatéral relations, i.0., your brothers, sisters, or kinsjieople other Ihan your lineal descendants.
Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collatéral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from différent branches of that common stirps or stock.
(Blackstone.) Fhiliste means that if Oëronte hn8 no other daughter-in-law than the Ophise whom Dorante prétends to be his wife, and
who does not exîst, his collatéral kinspeople
will be delightedy because they will bave more
hopes on bis suocession. Collatéral is
generally used în Frencb in tbe sensé of
distant relations» as in tbe foUowing passage
of Voltaire—
HéÏBS, dès qu'on enterre.
Un vieillard un peu riche, il sort de dessous terre Mille collatéraux qu'on ne connaissait pas.
Cfl otiM» Regnard —
Où pourrait-on rien roir qui fit plus de plaisir Que de collatéraux cette troupe affligée, Le maintien interdit et la mine allongée, lisant un testament, où, pftles, étonnés, On leur laisse un bonsoir ayeo un pied de nés ?
soENB m.
Piiffe 63 Une 16 — Du vice où Je te voi: Où^ dans lequel. Notice
tbe fréquent nse of adverbs of place instead of relative pronouns in many languages.
Ci 9 — Ze eonte qu'hier au soir tu m*enjîs publier: Tbe
story wbicb last nigbt you caused me to circulate. Notice tbe definite past. In modem Frencb tbe indefinite past, especially in tbe nortb and centre of France, is used in prefer* ence.
Cl 16 — Que ton effronterie a surpris ma vieillesse; Sur*
pris = trompé.
ô4 19 — Tu me fais donc servir de fable et de risée : You
make me tlie fable and tbe sport of every one.
64 26 — Ne dût tout accorder à ton eonttntement : Did you
not know tbat my consent was to yield everytbing to make you content, bappy ? This pbrase is not very clear.
61 2S — Consentait à tes yeux Vhymen èTune inconnue : Con-
sentir is only nsed now witb tbe préposition à. It ougbt tberefore to be consentait à tes yeux à rhymen d'une inconnue,
65 7 — Une ansez lude touche i Tbere is a pretty severe
trial for yoar skill.
65 20 — Que venaient ses beautés d'allumer dans mon âme :
Irregular construction =9utf ses beautés venaient d'allumer, bad just ligbted np.
C5 29 — Tu me fourbes eneor i Fourbtr = tromper ; deriv.
probably from fourbir, Eng. Jurbiih, Ital.
forbire, O.H.G. furban, to clean. to rub. It is by a similar metapbor, says b'cbeler, tlat
the Greek bas produced the ezpresEions, IwtTpifAfAtt, vtpirpifA/jM, cannizig fellow, rascal, fîx>m the verb rpi^uw, to rab. Cf. ako polisson, from polir^ to polisb, and fripon, wbich Diez dérives from Old Scandin. hripa, to be quick and agile.
Taffe 6G Une 21 — Que tu ne mourras point que de la main éCun père :
Foint is bere expletive and useless ; ne,., que \b enougb to express not...but.
SCBNB IV.
60 2S— Toute tierce, dit-on : Tiers^ adj., F, tierce, L.
tertius ; only osed în a few phrases, as un tiers, one third, une tierce personne ; and also in fencing, en tierce, in opposition to en quarte (inside and outside],
C7 1 — Ne raille pas que tu ne me déplaises : Que tu fie me
déplaises ::=situne veux pas me déplaire, 'Vh'iB construction is obsolète now, especially bc cause the first verb is in the imperative.
67 7 — Je l'entends au rebours : I understand it in the
reverse.
67 lô-^/Sa compagne, ou Je meure, a beaucoup d'agrément ;
Ou Je meure; we hâve met severai times already with this phrase, which was evidently a common oath at the time.
07 17 — De mon premier amour J^ai Pâme un peu gênée :
Gêné, from gêne, from géhenne, Lat. gehenna, Greek yUvva, Heb. gëhinnom, name of a valley near Jérusalem where the idolâtrons Israélites had sacrificed their children to the god Moloch; hence the place of condemnation and tonnent in modem times. The word gêne bas lost a good deal of its original strength, and simply means an embarrassment, a trouble.
