Footnotes

[305:1] Leaving his country for his country's sake.—Fitz-Geffrey: The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, stanza 213 (1596).

True patriots all; for, be it understood,

We left our country for our country's good.

George Barrington: Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. New South Wales, p. 152.

[305:2] Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.—Richard Franck: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694).

Necessity is the mother of invention.—Wycherley: Love in a Wood, act iii. sc. 3 (1672).

Magister artis ingenique largitor

Venter

(Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention).

Persius: Prolog. line 10.

Still an angel appear to each lover beside,

But still be a woman to you.

When thy Beauty appears.

Remote from man, with God he passed the days;

Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

The Hermit. Line 5.

We call it only pretty Fanny's way.

An Elegy to an Old Beauty.

Let those love now who never loved before;

Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris.[306:1]