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31 8-12 — ^These Unes are a kind of commentary on the weU-

known passage of 'tacitus : " Convicti odiogeneris humant" 31 21 — Quand il m'aurait trahie, even if he had betrayed me.

31 25 — Serois-je dispensée à suivre . . . Shoold I be

authorised to folio w... Voltaire, remarking on this line, says : — " Dispensa n'est pas Français ; elle veut dire : scrais-je autorisée à , , ** He should hâve said : n*est plus Français, See the numerous examples quoted by M. Godefroy, voL I, p. 206. We quote one of them : — "Je vous dispense ti permets de favoriser et promouvoir en . ceste élection . . . ^ (Henry IV., Lettres missives.)

32 I — Ressentiment, impression, feeling.

32 3 — Malgré qui ... Vaugejas and other grammarians

hâve decided that qui should never be used except for nouns of persons ; but Corneille and MoUère either knew nothing of that rule, or did not care to observe it. ^i?^ M. Marty-Laveaux, 11., p. 255.

32 6— Que du traître Néarque . . . before he has wit-

nesséd the punishment .. . .

32 ' 7 — Néarque eh est donc? Is Néarque, then, implicatedinit?

32 28 — Et devei^ l'orient assuré son aspect, and tumed himself towards the east. Devers for vers is an archaSsm. • CorAeiUe made a fréquent use of it in his earliest plays. Thus again :—" Tourné d'un . saint désir qui devers toi me guide." (Scév. de Sainte-Marthe. Sonnets.)

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