[128] Lord Berners’s Froissart, vol. i. chap. 168, 169, 173.
[129] This expression will remind the reader of a favourite saying of the “Good Sir James” Douglas, the companion of Robert Bruce’s dangers, that “It is better to hear the lark sing, than the mouse cheep:” meaning that he would never shut himself up in a castle while he could keep the open field.
[130] Si le gagneroie aincois a filler toutes les filleresses qui en France sont, que ce que je demourasse plus entre vos mains.
[131] Hist. du Messire Bertrand du Guesclin.
[132] Herod. vii. 35.
[133] Daniel, iv. 24, 25, 27, 29–32.
[134] Herod. iii. 14.
[135] The body of Cromwell was taken from the grave, exposed on a gibbet, and finally buried under the gallows, and this in the gay and polished reign of Charles II., who had not even the poor excuse for this despicable revenge which the Persian king’s unbridled passions may supply.
[136] The modern Siwah.
[137] iii. 21.