ne peut se dispenser, ' cannot help

14. vieux écus, worth more than newer money, which was debased. See note on p. 34, 1. 25.

20. des bréviaires, 'prayer-books,* breviaries — so called because they gave a sammary of ail the prayers.

aux trois encres, ' written in three inks.' The defînite article is used because the phrase implies * the three well-known inks,' black, red and blue, The dative dénotes the instrument. See Eve § 151.

22. U 7 en a là pour vlngrt écus au moins, ' there's at least twenty crowns' worth there.* Note the distinction between au moins, 'at least,' and du moifts, * at any rate.'

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6. Je vous en conjure. Hère g» refers to the request just made, but is not translated.