[JK] {391}—— and bound fair Helen in a bond.—[MS. erased.]
[513] Hor., Sat., lib. i. sat. iii. lines 107, 108.
[JL] That Riddle which all read, none understand.—[MS. erased.]
[JM]—— thou Sea which lavest Life's sand.—[MS. erased.]
[514] {392}["Fortune and victory sit on thy helm."—Richard III., act v, sc. 3, line 79.]
[515] ["Catherine had been handsome in her youth, and she preserved a gracefulness and majesty to the last period of her life. She was of a moderate stature, but well proportioned; and as she carried her head very high, she appeared rather tall. She had an open front, an aquiline nose, an agreeable mouth, and her chin, though long, was not mis-shapen. Her hair was auburn, her eyebrows black and rather thick, and her blue eyes had a gentleness which was often affected, but oftener still a mixture of pride. Her physiognomy was not deficient in expression; but this expression never discovered what was passing in the soul of Catherine, or rather it served her the better to disguise it."—Life of Catherine II., by W. Tooke, iii. 381 (translated from Vie de Catherine II. (J.H. Castéra), 1797, ii. 450).]
[516] {393}["His fortune swells him: 'Tis rank, he's married."—Sir Giles Overreach, in Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.]
[517] {394}[Hamlet, act iii. sc. iv. lines 58, 59.]
[518] {395}
["Not Cæsar's empress would I deign to prove;