L'Ami qui me plaît tant. — The Friend I like so muck

26 joyeux troubadour, gay minstrel; in apposition (to il in the

next line), hence used \\ ithout article. Comp. p. 87, 1. 17 33-34 je revois mon cœur dans sa gaîté limpide, the cheerful

limpid stream reflects the image of my own Joyous heai't

Page 90.

I son parler, its prattle. A Verb used substantively is put in the Infinitive ; thus, " le boire et le manger," drinking ajtd eating 10 vienne son réveil, when it comes into life again. See III. § 79, e

20 le ruisselet, the rivulet ; an obsolete poetical term, from "ruisseler,"

to trickle

21 I'a^nelet, diminutive of "agneau," lambkin. Comp. p. 79. 1. il