vous donner dans la vue, impress you favorably

Page 47.— I. braverie,/«^rK.

2. brisées, broken branches, thrown down to mark the track of game. Aller sur nos brisées ^ "to walk in our tracks," to be ouy rivals,

3. la moindre chose. According to the stage-tradition, Jodelet, to conceal his thinness, has on many layers of undervests, which are taken off one after another, leaving him dressed as a cook.

Page 48. — i. Vous nous mettez dans de beaux draps blancs, you put us in a fine plight,

2, pièce sanglante, cruel trick.

Page 50. — I. Sonnettes, coming after sonnets^ in this angry tirade, heightens the contemptuous tone, but it is not probable that the literal meaning, little bellsy or any other, is definitely attributed to Gorgibus.

Malherbe's playful use of the word as 2i faulty sonnet, may have suggested it to Molière. See Tallemant des Réaux, I., page 262.

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