Larant nos forfaits, washing away our sins

678. Rappela sa vie, lit. eaUed bacH hi8 Ufe=made life reibum to Tiim, or, rose from the dead.

688. Cf. note, line 438. Bn dérobant mon Bang=m Uant mon enfant.

704* Louis, Le. the king of France^ Louis IX. We ^d horo

the ezplanaUon of the peremptory order which Ck>rasmin carried ont at the end of the last scène. Such an explanation was needed to jnstify the change in the sultan's treatment of the christians, the effect of which cansed snch consternation and made Zaïre rashly promise to keep her relation to Nérestan and Lnsignan a secret f rom her lover. This promise is the salient point on which the tragic ontcome hinges.