v. 126. The glazed tear-drops.]
-sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears. Shakspeare, Rich. II. a. 2. s. 2.
v. 136. Branca Doria.] The family of Doria was possessed of great influence in Genoa. Branca is said to have murdered his father-in-law, Michel Zanche, introduced in Canto XXII.
v. 162 Romagna’s darkest spirit.] The friar Alberigo.
Canto XXXIV.
v. 6. A wind-mill.] The author of the Caliph Vathek, in the notes to that tale, justly observes, that it is more than probable that Don Quixote’s mistake of the wind-mills for giants was suggested to Cervantes by this simile.
v. 37. Three faces.] It can scarcely be doubted but that Milton derived his description of Satan in those lines,
Each passion dimm’d his face
Thrice chang’d with pale, ire, envy, and despair.
P. L. b. iv. 114.
from this passage, coupled with the remark of Vellutello upon it: