[11] {25}[Compare "Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us; and we fat ourselves for maggots."—Hamlet. act iv. sc. 3, lines 21-23.]
[12] {27}[Compare—"The fickle reek of popular breath." Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza clxxi. line 2.]
[13] Compare—"I have not flattered its rank breath." Childe Harold, Canto III. stanza cxiii. line 2.
Compare, too, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act iii. sc. i, lines 66, 67.
[14] {28}["Rode. Winter's wind somewhat more unkind than ingratitude itself, though Shakespeare says otherwise. At least, I am so much more accustomed to meet with ingratitude than the north wind, that I thought the latter the sharper of the two. I had met with both in the course of the twenty-four hours, so could judge."—Extracts from a Diary, January 19, 1821, Letters, 1901, v. 177.]
[g] {31}
——and even dared
Profane our presence with his savage jeers.—[MS. M.]
[h] {34} Who loved no gems so well as those of nature.—[MS. M.]
[] Wishing eternity to dust——.—[MS. M.]