la dot. Sound the t in this word

124. II faut choisir des deux, etc. Here the natural construction follows after choisir, although ou is admitted before Vèpouser. See note, 1. 20.

131. toutes les Espagnes, the four kingdoms of Spain, Asturias (later Leon), founded in the 8th century, Navarre, founded in the 9th century, Castile in 1088, and Aragon in 1085.

134. Gatalogne, a province bordering upon Saragossa, and in the extreme northeastern part of Spain. Barcelona is its capital.

170. Vous vouliez d'un brigand, you tœre wHMng to accept a brigand.

174. vous donnez l'éveil aux yeux Jaloux, probably a reference to the uncle, although Hernani might mean himself.

179. Qui raille après I'aiEront, etc. Qui is a comi>ound relative, equivalent to celui qui. Be who jests after insulting another, runs

ihe rUk of making j&uful 7ieir$^ i.e., death awaits him, and after death his property will be divided, joyfully.

180, Supply à. ohaoun à son tour.

180. messlre, a title which was reserved in the middle a,gea for people of hig>hest rank and later became merely a title of honor applicable to all persons of distinction. ^^-

101. or, a conjunction meaning now^ is from the Latin haray and is generally used to connect the parts of an argument.

105. Je chiffonnais ma Teste à la française, / was mussing my French vest.

208. Voilà de belles équipées. Translate as if the noun were singular. This is a fine escapade !

210. Saint Jacques de Compostelle. Santiago de Compostella in Spanish, a city northwest of Madrid, containing the celebrated cathedral of St. Jacques or Santiago, which is still the object of many pilgrimages. According to the legend, Compostella (campus BteUae) owes its name to the miraculous star which disclosed to Theodomir, Bishop of Iria in 835, the location of the marble crypt containing the body of St. Jacques, which now rests in the cathedral.

210. Avila is a picturesque mediaeval walled town, some 68 miles from Madrid, containing an old cathedral and a university.

222. Le Gid, the principal national hero of Spain, famous for his exploits in the wars against the Moors ; bom near Bnrg-os about 1040; died at Valencia 1099. Bernard del Carpio, a celebrated mediœval hero in Spain, who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries.

245. Zamora, the capital of the present province of Zamora, located north of Madrid, and formerly a frequent residence of the Kings of Leon and Castile.