clôt, 8rd pers. sing. près, indie, of clor

63. Qu'importe oe que peut, etc. These lines transposed would read QuHmporte cs de tempête et d^éclairs qu^vn nuage des airs peut nous jeter en passant/

68. lui me prend ma vie. This is an unusually emphatic expression, because the disjunctive lui is found in place of the regular conjunctive form iZ, and because the possessive adjective nia is used with vie, when the definite article might be expected, after the dative me.

88,89. mon pore . . . le- sien. The reference to his own father is necessarily vague, as Hernani does not disclose his identity until the fourth act. (See Introduction pp. 89, 40.) The father of the King was Philip of Burgundy, Archduke of Austria, and King of Castile (1478-1506) .

107. riche-homme, Spanish rico Tiombre, man of the realm, counsellor of state, grandr a noun, meaning grandee.

1 12. mainte reine, many a queen. Maint is a variable adjective of Grermanic origin, originally employed in the sense of beaucoup^ but now little used except in the expression maintes fais, envîra, used for enviera.