promtnaiit son regard, * casting bis eyes

19. Que trop vieille, ' only too old.* Qu^ hère may be explained as an abbreviation of Ce fCest que,

i*9X eu beau ooiunilter, * I bave vainly consulted.* At»ir beau takes an infinitive witbout préposition, Eve § 190.

24. drameurs, an Old Frencb term for quack doctors — perbaps meaning a 'doser,' from drame or drachmet tbe 'dram' weigbt by wbich medicines were weigbed out.

couteaux de pierre, used by quack doctors for making incisions, with tbe idea tbat iron migbt poison tbe wound, or from ancient tradition.