XIX. ainsi, lorsque souvent…. – André Chénier

L. 1. Ainsi…. This beginning shows that the fragment was meant as a
comparison to be used in some future piece.

Ll. 2. Douvre. Dover is, in French, Douvres, with an s, which has been
left out for the requirements of the metre.

L. 3. noir, dark.

L. 12. This periphrastic line is a blemish amidst the precision of the
rest. Tapis did very well as a Latinism in the BUCOLICS. It is quite
out of place here.

L. 17. sa main faible et lente…. I should take lente here as
meaning ‘limp’ in the same Latin sense in which we found it before. See
note to p. 45, XXXI, l. 8.