See 1. 37i

1. 17 19. Note that the rhymes in lines 17 19 — 1722 are not by couplets.

1. 1725. persucuU is pronounced hère as a trisyllabic word. The Une scans thus:

Ai{sé'mentJ je | rajvoa'y | el|le | me | per|su|ade |

jo8 LE VIEUX CÉLIBATAIRE. [actv.

1. 1736. Elle tif aurait trompé L^cxel she hâve deceîved me ? L 1737* tranu^ plot; liter.- the wdt of a doth. L. trama. L 1746. cette fourbe, that deceiver. Etym. lUjitrbo, Fourbe is also an abstiact sabstantive, and means deceit. Thus :

"Vous, nourri dans la fourbe et dans la trahison.'*

(Radne, Athalk^ m. 4.)