Scène V. Compare this scène with Othello^ act III, se

801. Qu'à ce point . • . s'aylllsse. Before this phrase we may understand "Do jou think,'* or **do jou belieye it possible."

808. Cf. Molière*s comedy Les Fâtheux, act II, so. 4, De «es gens dont V amour estfaU comme la haine. Translate: **Do y ou think I can love as others hâte?'* i.e. '^with the same distrust and fear of treaoherous action?"

808. 8i je rétalB Jamais spoken intensivelysf/ this sTunOd ener happen to me! The exclamation allows us to get a glimpse of his paseionate nature.

820. Tous, the pronoun, is pronounced Urnsse^ but to rhyme with renoua; some actors do not pronounce the a. The rhyme is for the eye.

326* Translate: *^what we should bave seen you do, if y ou were in my place."

841-42. Note how qœ affects the verb and also the objecta of thisverb. Translate: ^^ what a horrible bittemess the odious demency of this sultan spreads over his deeds of generosity," or ^'with what a bitter élément the sultan taints his generosity.'*

347. Noradin. Nour ed-Din Mahmoud (1116-1174). As he died seyenty-four years before this time, 2^ire could not haye been une jeune beauté at the time of the play.