Footnotes

[280:1] See Shakespeare, page [112].

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;

Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Gray: The Bard, part i. stanza 3.

O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind

Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

Pope: Homer's Odyssey, book xi. line 531.

[280:3] Let us swear an eternal friendship.—Frere: The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.

I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc.

Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk![281:1]

Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,

That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.

Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.

'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.[281:2]

Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!

Theodosius. Act iii. Sc. 2.