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

1. 1725. persuade is pronounced hère as a trisyllabic word. The line scans thus:

Aijséiment,! je | ra]vou', | el|le | me \ per|su|ade |

io8 LE VIEUX CÉLIBATAIRE. [act v.

1. 1736. Elle m^ aurait trompé !.. .czixv she hâve deceived me? 1. 1737. trame, plot; liter. the weft of a cloth. L. trania. 1. 1746. cette fourbe^ that deceiver. Etym. \\.. fiirbo. Fourbe is aiso an abstract substantive, and meaiis deceit. Thus :

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

(Racine, Athalie, lil. 4.)