_Ains_ is lost; the vowel beginning it, and which could so easily be cut off, could not save it; it gave way to another monosyllable which at best is but its anagram.[817] _Certes_ is beautiful in its old age, and has yet strength, though declining; it should be used in poetry, and our language is under some obligation to those authors who employ it in prose and defend it in their works. _Maint_ is a word which should never have been forsaken, and on account of its adaptability for any style and for the sake of its French origin.[818] _Moult_, though descended from the Latin, possessed in its time the same merit, and I do not see why _beaucoup_ should be preferred to it. _Car_ has endured some persecution, and if it had not been protected by some men of culture, it would have been shamefully banished from a language which it had served so long; and this without knowing what word to put in its place.[819] When _cil_ was in fashion it was one of the prettiest words of the French language; and it is a sad thing for the poets that it has become antiquated. _Douloureux_ is, of course, derived from _douleur_, and so are _chaleureux_ or _chaloureux_ from _chaleur_: yet _chaloureux_ is going out,[820] though it enriched our tongue, and was employed quite correctly when _chaud_ was not the right expression. _Valeur_ ought also to have given us _valeureux_; _haine, haineux_; _peine, peineux_; _fruit, fructueux_; _pitié, piteux_; _joie, jovial_; _foi, féal_; _cour, courtois_; _gîte, gisant_; _haleine, halené_; _vanterie, vantard_; _mensonge, mensonger_; _coutume, coutumier_; just as _part_ should have produced _partial_; _point, pointu_ and _pointilleux_; _ton, tonnant_; _son, sonore_; _frein, effréné_; _front, effronté_; _ris, ridicule_; _loi, légal_; _cœur, cordial_; _bien, benin_; and _mal, malicieux_. _Heur_ was allowed when _bonheur_ did not suit; from the first arose _heureux_, which is so French and yet exists no longer; if some poets have employed it, it is more for the sake of the measure than from choice. _Issue_ prospers, and comes from _issir_, no longer in existence. _Fin_ is used, but not _finer_, which is derived from it, whilst _cesse_ and _cesser_ are still flourishing. _Verd_ no longer gives _verdoyer_, nor _fête, fétoyer_; nor _larme, larmoyer_; nor _deuil, se douloir_ and _se condouloir_; nor _joie, sʼéjouir_; though it still makes _se réjouir_ and _se conjouir_, whilst _orgueil_ gives _sʼenorgueillir_. Formerly _gent_ was used, as in _le corps gent_; this easy word is not alone no longer in use, but it has involved _gentil_ in its ruin. We employ _diffamé_, which proceeds from _fame_, which is out of date, and _curieux_ is derived from _cure_, now obsolete. It was much better to say _si que_ than _de sorte que_ or _de manière que_, _de moi_ instead of _pour moi_ or _quant à moi_; _je sais que cʼest quʼun mal_[821] than _je sais ce que cʼest quʼun mal_, whether you consider the Latin analogy, or the benefit we often