plaisirs ma con-
stance abattue
21-Le jour à tous les

deux dans les tour-
mens ravi

27-Ce que peut la clé

mence

I-Sa peine peut aigrir
une ville animée
4-A vos bontés

12-Que je ne te l'ai
pris
17-Assez son ex-
emple vous flatte

...

(O perplexing contest) assign some fate for an unfortunate prince (ordonner de, order as to)

Causes my fortitude to break down beneath my griev

ances

Life torn from both in the midst of tortures

What clemency can do

His execution might stir an
excited town to mutiny
By your leniency will allow
themselves to be moved.
Than I received it of you

Long enough, nay, too long since, have you been fascinated by his example. See note, p. 20, 1. 6.

18-Mais gardez que But beware lest the opposite

should happen to you(show itself against you). Those are some

I have been reigning now twenty years. See note,

p. 20, 1. 6.

Till my love has a...Aye is an old-fashioned form of ait.

Which makes the universe know a real monarch

They make him out the victim of some fatal despair

SCENE IV.

44

1-Et dans la même And in the same state of

Page 47 line 30-Il m'en coûte la

48

vie, il m'en coûte
la gloire

2-Leur servira d'assez

pure victime

It costs me life, it costs me honour. See note, p. 10, 1. 18.

Will be a sufficiently pure victim for them

ACTE V.

SCENE I.

8-D'aucun mot, d'au- With no word, no cry

48

21-T'avoit

48

contre moi

48

23-Tu pus

24-Démenti ce sang

Remember

You have life (see the day. light)

Had armed your hand against

me

You were able

Never proved faithless to the opposition you inherited (never bclied that blood which had made you of the contrary party)

25-Et qu'ont mise si And whom my fondness and

haut mon amour

et mes soins

care for her have so elevated

Old form for bonheur, happi

ness

Whom the rightful dictates of my laws restrain

Should hold

24-Et si sa liberté, &c. If her liberation prompted

25-Vous m'y voyez If I seem to you abstracted,

rever

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