Eogèno, see Introduction, page vi

5. Swift, Prior, Atterbury, well-known names in English literafure, contemporaries of Bolingbroke.

6. Voilà ce qu'il s'agit de . . ., This is wkat the queen must be wtmd* tt undenUinJ.

7. emporté à coups de canon, gaintd by shot and tktll (" canonshots ").

Paf« 7. — I. qu'il ne . . . l'idée, that the idea ntver geU into their keaJs (Le. of U vulgaire, " the crowd " of ordinary men, not "the vulgar").

2. n est quelqu'un =s n y a quelqu'un. — j'en conriens {en convenir de), I admit.

Pa^ 8. — I. me donne . . . chiquenaude, snaps his finger in my fate.

2. Voiu jugez si . . .^you mayfudge tohether . . . In this sensé si stands af ter the verb without a comma ; in the sensé of " if " (condition) it is preceded by a comma.