938 ne le connaître pas. This position of _pas_, after the infinitive,
is elegant and emphatic.

946 croître is transitive only in poetry.

955 Suspendez = "A truce to. . . ."

956 puissent is so frequently used to express an exclamative wish, that
it usually drops the _que_, which here however is retained.

962 encore, i.e., in addition to that fear.

992 riche is the subst.--_Sous la loi_ goes closely after _gémisse_.

1008 For servir de, see l. 259, N.

1012 camp = "host."

1021 For the virtual superlative _si sage_, cf. l. 541.

1024 Dussiez-vous, = _quand même vous devriez_. This elegant use of
the imperf. subj. with subject pronoun inverted (= _quand même_ and the
conditional) is generally confined to the auxiliaries, or
pseudo-auxiliaries, such as _savoir_, _pouvoir_, _falloir_, etc. In
the third person sing. however, where the verb-forms are less
unwieldly, other verbs may be so used: it is a matter of euphony.--For
the previous offer, see l. 660.

1039 aurait puise. Note this conditional past of hypothetical
statement. It always implies that the speaker is unwilling to indorse