[594] [For "the crowd of usurpers" who started up in the reign of Gallienus, and were dignified with the honoured appellation of "the thirty tyrants," see Gibbon's Decline and Fall, 1825, i. 164.]
[595] [King Lear, act iv. sc. 6, line 15.]
[596] {447}["Illita Nesseo misi tibi texta veneno."
Ovid., Heroid. Epist. ix. 163.]
[597] [A "bower," in Moore's phrase, signifies a solitude à deux; e.g. "Here's the Bower she lov'd so much."
"Come to me, love, the twilight star
Shall guide thee to my bower."
Moore.]
[598] {448}[Compare The Waltz, lines 220-229, et passim, Poetical Works, 1898, i. 501.]
[599] {449}Scotch for goblin.