GENERAL NOTES

The notes and explanations will be found at the end of each play. They are arranged in accordance with the acts and scènes, with références to the iitus in each page, not reckoning the names of the dramatis personœ^ the running title, or the stage directions.

In the seventeenth century the two letters ai preceding the consonants s and / in the infînitives, présent and imperfect tenses, and conditional mood, of some verbs, used invariably to be written oi^ as

connaître one finds

For ,, je connais „ il connaît „ je voudrais „ il Tondrait

connoître.

connois.

connoît.

voudrois.

voudroit.

falloit, &c.

„ il fallait, &c.,

The Editors hâve preferred pointing this out in a note, to altering the text.

LES