"But Thy[*] most dreaded instrument,
In working out a pure intent,
Is Man—arrayed for mutual slaughter,—
Yea, Carnage is thy daughter!"
Wordsworth's Thanksgiving Ode (January 18, 1816), stanza xii. lines 20, 23.
[*]To wit, the Deity's: this is perhaps as pretty a pedigree for murder as ever was found out by Garter King at Arms.—What would have been said, had any free-spoken people discovered such a lineage?
[Wordsworth omitted the lines in the last edition of his poems, which was revised by his own hand.]
[IA] {333}The Duc de Richelieu——.—[MS. erased.]
[418] ["Le Prince de Ligne fut blessé au genou; le Duc de Richelieu eut une balle entre le fond de son bonnet et sa tête."—Hist. de la Nouvelle Russie, ii. 210.
For the gallantry of Prince Charles de Ligne (died September 14, 1792) eldest son of Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne (1735-1814), see The Prince de Ligne, 1899, ii. 46.