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120. This line can be read as having two meanings, either: Cette croix ëaisit de respect et d* effroi mon cceur surpris; or, saisit mon coBur {qui fut) surpris de respect et d^effnH, — in either case the use of de, as rigimey is required, so that the double (or amphibological) meaning is inévitable, unless the construction is changed.

120. Humains attendris, human beings moved to pity^ or tendet' hearted huma/n beings.

144. Trop peu fait, inca/pahle {to do justice to), or unftt to be offered to,

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