FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 5: 'Sacred eagle:' the Romans let fly an eagle from the pile of a dead Emperor.]
[Footnote 6: 'Bold Greek:' Alexander the Great.]
[Footnote 7: 'Palms' were thought to grow best under pressure.]
[Footnote 8: 'Bologna's walls,' &c.: alluding to a Popish story about the wall of Bologna, on which was an image of the Virgin, being blown up, and falling exactly into its place again.]
[Footnote 9: 'Wands:' see the 'Antiquary.']
[Footnote 10: 'Frenchman's cause:' the treaty of alliance which Cromwell entered into with France against the Spaniards.]
[Footnote 11: 'Freemen of the Continent:' by the taking of Dunkirk.]
[Footnote 12: 'Alexander:' Alexander VII., at this time Pope.]
[Footnote 13: 'Vestal:' Tarpeia.]
[Footnote 14: 'Loud sighs:' the tempest which occurred at Cromwell's death.]
[Footnote 15: 'Peaceful urn:' Dryden no true prophet—Cromwell's bones having been dragged out of the royal vault, and exposed on the gibbet in 1660.]
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