Footnotes

[256:1] See Herrick, page [202].

[256:2]

'T is with our judgments as our watches,—none

Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Pope: Essay on Criticism, part i. line 9.

[256:3] See Shakespeare, page [147].

[257:1]

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Pope: Essay on Criticism, part ii. line 53.

There 's no such thing in Nature, and you 'll draw

A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.

Sheffield: Essay on Poetry.


MARQUIS OF MONTROSE.  1612-1650.

He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

That dares not put it to the touch

To gain or lose it all.[257:2]

My Dear and only Love.

I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,

And famous by my sword.[257:3]

My Dear and only Love.