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than in Latin. Thus Montaigne will omit the pronoun, but Malherbe never. Line 5. _Cuydans_=thinking (_Cogitare_=_Cogtare_=_Coyde_=_cuider_, the _oi_ became _ui_ by a common transition; _cf._ noctem, octem, noit, nuit, huit.) The word is now archaic. Line 9. _Encor._ Without the final e. This is not archaic but poetic licence. _Encore_="hanc horam," and a post tonic "am" in Latin always means a final mute e in French. Epigram 2, line 1. _Maint_ (now archaic) is a word of Teutonic origin, our _many_. Line 6. _Coulpe_=Culpam, of course; a fault. Line 9. _Emport_. Note the old subjunctive without the final e. _Vide supra_, on "_Chant_." The modern usage is incorrect. For the first conjugation making its subjunctive in _em_, should lose the final syllable in French: a post tonic _em_ always disappears. The modern habit of putting a final e to all subjunctives is due to a false analogy with verbs from the third conjugation. These made their subjunctive in _am_, a termination which properly becomes the mute e of French. TO HIS LADY IN SICKNESS. Line 4. _Sejour_=(here) "staying at home." Line 14, 15. _Friande de la bouche_, glutton. Line 17. _Danger._ The first meaning of "Danger" is simply "to be in lordship" (Dominicarium). The modern is the English "Danger." This is between the two; "held to your hurt." Line 26. _Doint._ This subjunctive should properly be _don_ (_donem_, post tonic _em_ is lost). The "oint" is from a false analogy with the fourth conjugation, as though the Latin had been _doniam_. THE VINEYARD SONG. Verse 1, line 2. _Clamours._ See how southern this is, with its Lanquedoc forms, "clamours" for "_clameurs_." Line 5. So are these diminutions all made up at random, as southern as can be, and note the tang of the verse, fit for a snapping of the fingers to mark the rapid time. Verse 3, line 2. _Benistre._ The older form of _benir_ from _Benedicere_; the _c_ between vowels at the end of the tonic syllable becomes _s_: the _t_ is added for euphony, to help one to pronounce the _s_. Line 3. _Silenus_ for _Silene_. Because the name was new, the Latin form is kept. The genius of the French, unlike that of modern English, is to absorb a foreign name (as we did once). Thus once we said "Anthony" "Tully": but Montaigne wrote "Cicero"--his descendants say "Ciceron." Line 4. _Aussi droict qu'une ligne_="right out of the flask." The flask held above one and the wine poured straight in
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