[225] PARDI. See note 15.
[226] FAUTES D'ORTHOGRAPHE. See note 134.
[227] N'APPRÊTONS POINT À RIRE, 'Let us give them no occasion to laugh at us.' Apprêter à rire, Littré, 8°, also Dict. de l'Acad., 1878.
[228] HABIT D'ORDONNANCE, 'Livery.' Until 1666 the regiments in the French army wore the livery of the colonel commanding. After that date they wore the king's livery or uniform, though some regiments, more highly favored, wore the actual colors of the royal livery; the uniform was in fact nothing but a mark that the wearers belonged to the sovereign. Harlequin has played upon this fact in a preceding scene, when he has called himself "un soldat d'antichambre."
[229] CELA NE LAISSE PAS D'ÊTRE. See note 109.
[230] TANT Y A QUE, 'However that may be,' or 'Nevertheless, the truth is that.'
[231] LA VOILÀ BIEN MALADE, 'She is pining with love for me.'
[232] PAR LA VENTREBLEU, Ventrebleu, written also ventrebieu, is a euphemism for ventre (de) Dieu. A familiar interjection; admitted by the Academy, 1878. For the la, compare a similar corruption of palsambleu (par le sang [de] Dieu) into par LA sambleu, and corbleu (corps [de] Dieu) into par LA corbleu.
[233] CASAQUE. Harlequin's loose upper garment or jacket.
[234] SOUQUENILLE. A long outer garment of coarse cloth, worn especially by grooms in the care of their horses.