"I pull in resolution."
Macbeth, act v. sc. 5, line 42.]
[ [468] {452}[See the translation of Sanudo's narrative in Appendix, [p. 463].]
——whom I know
To be as worthless as the dust they trample.—[MS. M. erased.]
[ [fs] {453} With unimpaired but not outrageous grief.—[Alternative reading, MS. M.]
[ [469] {454}[An anachronism, vide ante, [p. 336].]
[ [ft] I am glad to be so——.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [470] This was the actual reply of Bailli, maire of Paris, to a Frenchman who made him the same reproach on his way to execution, in the earliest part of their revolution. I find in reading over (since the completion of this tragedy), for the first time these six years, "Venice Preserved," a similar reply on a different occasion by Renault, and other coincidences arising from the subject. I need hardly remind the gentlest reader, that such coincidences must be accidental, from the very facility of their detection by reference to so popular a play on the stage and in the closet as Otway's chef-d'oeuvre.
["Still crueller was the fate of poor Bailly [Jean Sylvani, born September 17, 1736], First National President, First Mayor of Paris.... It is the 10th of November, 1793, a cold bitter drizzling rain, as poor Bailly is led through the streets.... Silent, unpitied, sits the innocent old man.... The Guillotine is taken down ... is carried to the riverside; is there set up again, with slow numbness; pulse after pulse still counting itself out in the old man's weary heart. For hours long; amid curses and bitter frost-rain! 'Bailly, thou tremblest,' said one. 'Mon ami, it is for cold,' said Bailly, 'C'est de froid.' Crueller end had no mortal."—Carlyle's French Revolution, 1839, iii. 264.]