43: des empires, the object of verrait.
44: son flux. The antecedent of son is flot, in line 25.
45: The antecedent of le and il is flot again.
46: Il n'aille pas me prendre, impersonal, «There came not over me a giddiness.»
47: seulement, «even».
48: dût en parlant, «even if in speaking».
49: dusses-tu me dire, see preface.
50: Qui vive? «Who goes there?»
51: étranger par sa mère, «a foreigner on his mother's side», the Spanish side. See note 59, act I.
52: meure comme un Hébreu, a testimony to the constancy of the Jews under persecution.