I. 9. les Terges d\r, the flowcrs called * golden-rods

II. 19-34. It is hardly necessary to call the reader's attention to the accurate and délicate touches in this description of the chr)'santhemum. The abundant melancholy of the poem rests, as is always the case with Angellier's pictures, on a basis of close observation.

Page 126. La Fin des Bœufs. 1. 3. le garrot, ' the withers.'

Page 127. La Fin des Bœufs, 11. 20-4. Note how nobly this sweet Virgilian image gives the finishing touch to a cruel picture of the shambles. The harsh rhythm and masculine rimes of the pièce sound to the ear much like the weighty alexandrines of Agrippa d'Aubigné, the powerful poet of Les Tragiques (1555-1630).

Page 128. Decenter mori; lit.: to die decorously, i. e. as becomes a true man, a stoic.

Page 129. 11. 41-4. le Je, a rare phrase instead of le moi, i.e. a man's self. — ' To fall from the height where the / reigns conscious and works out a purpose, crystallising as it were, out of the vile depths of unconscious matter and dark vacancy.'

1. 47. Vêtre qua sacré; i.e. the being consecrated (crowned like a king) by . . ., made sacred by . . .

Dans la Lumière antique.

Page 130. 1. i. For a summary of the whole Dialogue sec Introduction, p. xxxix.

mon entretien, * my say,' ' my confession.*

Page 131. 1. 29. marcher hère does not mean to walk, the woman having becn rcprcsented sitting. It rather mcans : ' to hâve one's fect in . . .'

11. 39-40. une figure . . .posture, i.e. the figure of a person whose face is not clearly secn (so that his inward thoughts can only bc guessed from the gênerai attitude of the body).

Page 132. 1. 50, des somptueux brasiers, i. c. the purple roses, as rcd as fiâmes.

I. 62. ces illustres abandons . . . , c. g. Ariadne, Dido, and other ' good women ' whose sad fatcs hâve bccn told by Ovid and Chaucer.

II. 67-8. l'image qui passait tout à Vlxure en ta parole sage. The old man had painted love as treacherous as the sea, which at first allures a boat by its smoothness, thcn suddcnly dashes lier U) pic-ces against the rocks.