Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI. stanza ii.]
[JY] {407}
Some thirty years before at fair eighteen.—[MS.]
or, Seven and twenty—which, it does not matter,—
Wrinkles, those damnedst democrats, won't flatter.—[MS. erased.]
[538] Tiberius Gracchus, being tribune of the people, demanded in their name the execution of the Agrarian law; by which all persons possessing above a certain number of acres were to be deprived of the surplus for the benefit of the poor citizens.
[539] {408}
"Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura."
Inferno, Canto I. line 2.
[JZ] Hut where we travellers bait with dim reflection.—[MS. erased.]