15 cet ouvrage, the founding of this institution.
24 Louis XIV. supported foreign missions in the East and in the Nouveau Monde.
31-32 Allusion is here made to the Augsburg League (1687), in which Austria joined Sweden, Saxony, etc., for the purpose of opposing Louis XIV. Its leading spirit was the protestant William of Orange.
36 The pope Innocent III. was accused by Louis XIV. of aiding the anti-Roman designs of William of Orange,
48 Allusion to the taking of Philippsburg, Mannheim and Frankenthal, in the preceding year.
49 un fils. The Grand Dauphin had conducted the above campaign, with the great engineer Vauban.
NOTES TO PLAY.
2 Beni soit is the usual form. The retained que is therefore emphatic.—Voeux very frequent in poetry for prieres, for metrical reasons. The whole expression is elliptical: qui te rend etc.
3 Cf. Book of Esther, ii. 5, for the descent of Mordecai, and consequently of Esther herself, his brother's daughter.
4 For tense of fus, see App. II., ii. B. b.