se nomme = vous nommez

Page 15* — I. se nomme = me nomme.

2. Monsieu = Monsieur, — boutez dessus, Ut., * put on (your hat)', rr couvrez-vous. Lucas, as often, merely repeats in peasant language what Valère has said.

3. d'une façon, etc., in suc h a way that hobody can find fault with thtm.

4. sols == sous. In Molière's time the sou was worth twelve deniers^ or one-twentieth of a livre. The livre and the franc were virtually équivalent.

Page 16« — I. nous savons les choses, we know ail atout the

viatter.

2. il y a fagots et fagots. This expression has become proverbial.

3» s'il s'en fallait un double, for a farthing less; lit., *if there were lacking *, etc. Double = * double denier *, an old copper coin worth one-sixth of a sou.

4. de la sorte, *in that way', like that. In this expression la retains the démonstrative force of its etymon, the Latin illam.

5. Tout ce tripotage ne sart {sert) de rian (rien) ; je savons, etc^ ail this shilly-shallying's of no use; we know what we know.

Page 17. — I. ne veuillez point niti =^ veuillez ne point nier, please do not deny.

2. en, indemnité, 'in the matter', or the like; omit in translating. Cf. en venir aux mains^ * to come to blows \