——ten thousand caps were flung
Into the air and thrice ten——.—[MS. M. erased.]
[ [444] {426}[Compare—
"Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo!"
Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza xii. line 8, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 337.]
Where swings the sullen { iron oracle. huge oracular bell. } [Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [445] {427} "I Signori di Notte" held an important charge in the old republic. [The surveillance of the "sestieri" was assigned to the "Collegio dei Signori di notte al criminal." Six in all, they were at once police magistrates and superintendents of police. (See Cappelletti, Storia, etc., 1856, ii. 293.)]
[ [446] [The Doge overstates his authority. He could not preside without his Council "in the Maggior Consiglio, or in the Senate, or in the College; but four ducal councillors had the power to preside without the Doge. The Doge might not open despatches except in the presence of his Council, but his Council might open despatches in the absence of the Doge."—Venetian Studies, by H. F. Brown, 1887, p. 189.]
[ [ew] {428} That thus you dare assume a brigand's power.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [ex]——storm-clock.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]