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8 3 — S*il ne vous traile ici d'entière confidence. If hc

does not treat youhere, &c. ; </e put for az/ec, as is often the case with Racine, Corneille, and other writersof the lyth century.

8 7 — Assurez-vous sur lui, trust to him.

8 27 —A raconter ... ^ for en. In relatin j.

8 31 — Une femme d'honneur, an honourable woman.

9 2 — Courage is hère for cœur. In the oldest texts cœur , and courage corresponded respectively to cor and

anima ; gradually the two words were used in- „; diflferently the one for the other.

Ke blâmons désormais des femmes le courage (cœur). Comme ignorant, aveugle, inconstant et volage. La nature est leur loi.

(*• Amadis Jamyn.»*)

9 14— Plus honnête homme, more thorough gentleman.

9 17— Mais que sert, what is the use of . . . ; que^ fot à çuûi.

9 25— Parmi ce . . . instead of au milieu de ce . . , Parmi is used now only with collective or plural nouns ; but this distinction was not recognbed by the writers of the seventeenth century.

Thus : — ^D'oii lui venoit, parmi une telle agitation, une si grande tranquillité. (Bossuet) 10 21 — Lambeaux, rags. (Etym., G. Lappen, L. L.

10 36— De tout point, altogetber. [lamberare.)

11 II — Une juste terreur, a legitimate fcar.