[234] {503}[Francis the First was taken prisoner at the Battle of Pavia, February 24, 1525.]
[dh] With a soldier's firm foot.—[MS.]
[235] [Compare The Siege of Corinth, line 752, Poetical Works, 1900, iii. 483. There is a note of tragic irony in the soldiers' vain-glorious prophecy.]
[di] With the Bourbon will count o'er.—[MS.]
[236] {504}[Brantôme (Memoires, etc., 1722, i. 215) quotes a "chanson" of "Les soldats Espagnols" as they marched Romewards. "Calla calla Julio Cesar, Hannibal, y Scipion! Viva la fama de Bourbon.">[
[dj] The General with his men of confidence.—[MS.]
[dk] {505} And present phantom of that deathless world.—[MS.]
[237] {506}[When the Uticans decided not to stand a siege, but to send deputies to Cæsar, Cato determined to put an end to his life rather than fall into the hands of the conqueror. Accordingly, after he had retired to rest he stabbed himself under the breast, and when the physician sewed up the wound, he thrust him away, and plucked out his own bowels.—Plutarch's Lives, Langhorne's Translation, 1838, P. 553.]
[dl] {507} Of a mere starving——.—[MS.]
[dm]——Work away with words.—[MS.]