[4] Moliere seems to refer to Dr. Guenaut, who was said to have killed with antimony (his favourite remedy) his wife, his daughter, his nephew, and two of his sons-in-law.--AIMe MARTIN.
[5] _Oublies_; now called _plaisirs_. "Wafers" would perhaps have been the right rendering in Moliere"s time.
[6] This piece is composed of a mixture of dog-Latin, French, &c. and is utterly untranslateable.
[7] It is said that it was when uttering this word that Moliere gave way to the illness from which he had long suffered.