VOUS eût été dire, would hâve gone and told you

4. je touche au but . . . coup, / hit the mark the veryfirst shot,

5. qui était plus grand, etc. Sganarelle's pleasantry is based on two meanings of grand, *great' and *tall '. — de tout cela, by fully that much, i.e. by the length of the arm from the elbow \o the finger-tips.

6. humeurs, humors, in old physiology, four fluids (blood, phlegm, choler, or yellow bile, and melancholy, or black bile) conceived as entering into the constitution of the body and determining, by theii relative proportions, a person's health and tempérament. (fVebster*j New International Dict.)

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