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39 5 — Comme est-il mort? Comme for comment, pro-

bably hère on account of the mètre, but was often used even in prose with the same meaning.

39 14 — On l'a vîplente . . . They hâve been ôbliged to remove him from the scafïbld by violent means.

39 25 — Pitoyables . . . merciful. iV/^^a^/^ was formerly

used in the sensé of (i) worthy of compassion : —

Laissez vivre du peuple vin pitoyable reste.

(Corneille, "Œdipe.")

and (2) indined to compassion : —

.... Les dieux, }}\yj& piioyabîesy A nos justes clameurs se rendent exombles.

(ComcUle, ** Méaée.")

It means now, almost exclusively, contemptible, ridiculous. Comp. the £nglish/«f^/.

40 16 — Autrui (L. alterius).

40 2$ — Remis is used hère exactly in the sensé of the Latin remissus, and means quiet, peaceful, Thus again : —

Tout courtois il me suit, et d*un parler remis: Quoi, monsieur, est-ce ainsi qu'on traite ses amis?

(Régnier, Sat. x.)