P.6-Î] NOTES

7. le jargon et le barbarisme, et d'écrire purement; Molière's langoage is not so uniformly correct as the language of the other great writers of the âge. Jargon and barbarisme probably hâve référence to the expressions of his soubrettes and tbe dialect of hi& peasants.

Page 6. — I. Malherbe, François (1555-1628)^ critic and court poet under Henry IV and Louis XIII, the reformer of French versification ; cf. no. 60.

2. Théophile de Viau (i 590-1626), poet and dramatîst, author of the pastoral drama, Pyrame et Thisbé (about 162 1). His style,, much affected by Gongorism, is quite the opposite of Malherbe's.