XVI. SOUVENT LE MALHEUREUX SOURIT.... - XVII. JE T'INDIQUE LE FRUIT....

L. 3. _L'Allobroge_, the country of the Allobroges, now Savoy.

This fragment Becq de Fouquières thought was meant as part of the _Art d'aimer_, but G. de Chénier says that it is, in the MS., marked with the sign _El._ (elegy).

L. 6. _qui ne font qu'un._ These words are struck out in the MS. No doubt Chénier thought the phrase too hackneyed.

L. 14. _infidèles._ Not to be trusted, treacherous, perfidious, as in this line: 'Je n'ai que trop connu leurs larmes _infidèles_,' Voltaire, _Orph._ III. i.