644 encore un coup, = "once more." _Coup_ enters into many idioms. Cf. Le coup de grâce.--Le coup de l'étrier.--La ville fut prise par un coup de main.--Venez me donner un coup de main.--Il s'est engagé par coup de tête.--Un coup d'essai, de maître, d'éclat.--Un coup de pied.--Après coup.--Coup sur coup.--A coup sûr.--C'est un coup monté. 648 d'effroi depends on _combien_. 649 la foudre, because the king can strike as suddenly and irresistibly as the thunderbolt. 653 étincelle, 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 interêt, see l. 57, N. 686 veut = "bids." 690 entre, here "above." 692 grâce devant vos yeux = "favor in your sight." 693 fûtes, 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. 708 clartés, properly "lights;" the plural being, as often is the case, the concrete manifestation of that quality of which the singular is the abstract name. Cf. "charity" and "charities." 713 Que vous semble. See App. IV, i. B. 714 devoir is here used as a pseudo-auxiliary; see l. 155, N,--_L'emporter_, idiomatic for "to win the day." The substantive, for which the fossilized pronoun _le_ stands, is uncertain. Cf. _l'échapper belle_, idiomatic for "to have a narrow escape." 778 Note the force of the tense: "I never [once] admired." See App. II, ii. B. b. 779 Note the difference between _avoir envie de_ and _porter envie a_. 799 errer is never, while "to err" is always used figuratively. 820 en. See App. V, ii. D. 825 rejoindre = "to join." This prefix _re_- is more freely used in French than in English. Cf. _recopier_ = "to copy." 826 See Book of Esther, vi. 13-14, for the few lines on which Racine has built the two strong scenes that follow. Also i. 6, for the description of the grandeur of this "court of the garden of the king's palace." 832 éclaircir is "to restore to its own brightness;" _éclairer_ is "to throw a light from without upon." Cf. l. 177. 835 ressentir, from _re_ + _sentir_. Note the doubling of the "_s_," in order to preserve its sound as in _sentir_. Cf. _ressembler_, _ressource_, _ressusciter_, etc. aussi cette félicité, i.e., the joy of having been favored as mentioned in l. 834, as well as the pain of the affront. 836 le mal is of course a reference to ll. 618-622; _le bienfait_, to l. 702.