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1. 17 19. Note that the rhymes in lines 1719— 17M are not by couplets.

I. 17^5* persuctde is pronounced hère as a trisyllabic word. The Une scans thus:

Ai|sé|ment,| je | ra|you*, | eljle | me | per|su|ade |

io8 LE VIEUX CÉLIBATAIRE. [act v.

1. 1736. Elle ti^ aurait trompé !...Qasi she hâve deceived me? 1. 1737» trame, plot; liter. the weft of a cloth. L. trama, 1. 1746. cette fourbe^ that deceiver. £tym. It. furbo» Fourbe is also an abstiact substantive, and meakis deceit. Thus :

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

(Racine, Athalie^ ni. 4.)