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Page 82 . — 1. auteur. Tertullian.

Page 33 . — 1. place. Bristol, in the southwest of England.

2. Essex. Son of Elisabeth's favorite. The battle was Edgehill.

3. Tu sais, etc. A combination of two passages from Livy (Book XXII, 51 and Book XXVI, 11). The captain is Hannibal.

4. princesse. The future Duchess of Orleans, who escaped to France disguised as a boy. See page 34, lines 9-16.

Page 35. — 1. couru. Notice that the past participle does not agree with its antecedent object. This construction was not infrequent in the seventeenth century. See page 38, line 12.

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