FOOTNOTES

by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)

　　1. An old comic pastoral.

　　2. The real hero in Rabelais' 'Pantagruel.'

　　3. Frosine professes a knowledge of palmistry.

　　4. Old enemies. The Turks took Candia from the Venetians in 1669, after a war of twenty years.

　　5. Molière makes use even of his own infirmities. Compare act i. scene iii. This cough killed him at last.

　　6. A good deal of the mystification is lost in the translation through the necessity of occasionally putting it for casket, and she for Élise.