L. 2. _Quand ma main_... A quaint periphrasis for 'When I am out of
cash.'
L. 4. _m'a fermé le seuil._ Chénier had first written, 'Je vois qu'on
m'a fermé la _porte_ inexorable.' On reconsidering it, he must have
thought _fermer le seuil_ a more novel alliance of words, giving more
force to the whole group _fermer le seuil inexorable_. Cf. _élever sa
langue_ for _élever la voix_, p. 14, l. 203.
L. 7. _O soins_... Persius, _Sat._ i. 'O curas hominum! O quantum est in
rebus inane.'
Ll. 11-14. Persius, _Sat._ iii. 109-111; Horace, _Od._ i. 9. 21.