L. 169. _De sourire et de plainte_ would be _de sourires et de plaintes_
in prose. But the two _s_'s of the plural would prevent the two _e_'s
from being elided and so give two syllables more.
L. 170. _tes nobles toits._ The plural for the singular, that the
form of the word, riming with _abois_, may satisfy the eye. A Latinism
besides.
Ll. 174-179. _Od._ xiv. 462. I cannot refrain from giving here Chapman's
quaint equivalent for _ce que... il eût mieux valu taire_: 'strong
wine,' he makes Ulysses say, 'moves the wise to... prefer a speech to
_that were better in_.'