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597 neveux, classical for "posterity." For _servir de_, see l. 259, N.
600-612 The construction is:
( _que ce mortel . . . f�t men�_;
_j'e voudrais_ ( _que, pour comble . . ., un seigneur . . .
( guid�t . . . et cri�t . . ._
603 orn� refers to _coursier_.
604 dans has the force of "through the streets of."
605 comble from Latin _cumulus_, the "heap" that tops a full measure.
Hence its connotation is generally, though not always, favorable.
E.g., _Combler de faveurs.--Le comble de l'ingratitude est de ha�r ses
bienfaiteurs.--Le voleur, poursuivi, se r�fugia dans les combles du
ch�teau.--Au comble de la mis�re_.
607 enfin, see l. 160, N.
614 This line explains ingenuously enough the reason for the statement
in l. 613.
616 il refers to preceding _ce_.
619 pr�tends = "mean."
622 fais--"see."
625-628 The apodosis begins with _Plus j'assure_. . . .
630 en. See App. V, ii. C.
633 sans �tre attendue = "unsummoned."
635 Je me meurs. _Se mourir_ is either more elevated in style than
_mourir_, or = "to die slowly."
637 suis-je pas? The omission of _ne_, the one real negative particle,
is only possible as a poetical license, and is rightly very
rare.--_Fr�re_, a classical strong form for "friend."
644 encore un coup, = "once more." _Coup_ enters into many idioms.
Cf. Le coup de gr�ce.--Le coup de l'�trier.--La ville fut prise par un
coup de main.--Venez me donner un coup de main.--Il s'est engag� par
coup de t�te.--Un coup d'essai, de ma�tre, d'�clat.--Un coup de
pied.--Apr�s coup.--Coup sur coup.--A coup s�r.--C'est un coup mont�.
648 d'effroi depends on _combien_.
649 la foudre, because the king can strike as suddenly and irresistibly
as the thunderbolt.
653 �tincelle, lit. "sparkles," but here: "flashes."
654 The Parsees, in Asia, worship fire to this day. The king here
invokes his gods, the sun and stars.
656 peine is never "physical pain."
661 se pouvoir is only used impersonally, = "to be possible."
676 en. See App. V, ii. C.--_Astres ennemis_ is in accordance with the
astrological superstitions of the time.
678 respectable, in its full etymological sense of "worthy of respect."
681 inter�t, see l. 57, N.
686 veut = "bids."
690 entre, here "above."
692 gr�ce devant vos yeux = "favor in your sight."
693 f�tes, in the past definite, expresses that he may have been
favorable to her in the past, in a period of time _that has come to an
end_, implying "even though he be so no more." See App. II, ii. B. b.
701 qu'on lui fasse entendre = "give him to understand." For dat.
_lui_, see App. III, N.
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