v. 65. Theirs.] “They shall be ashamed of the part they have taken aga’nst thee.”
v. 69. The great Lombard.] Either Alberto della Scala, or Bartolommeo his eldest son. Their coat of arms was a ladder and an eagle.
v. 75. That mortal.] Can Grande della Scala, born under the influence of Mars, but at this time only nine years old
v. 80. The Gascon.] Pope Clement V.
v. 80. Great Harry.] The Emperor Henry VII.
v. 127. The cry thou raisest.] “Thou shalt stigmatize the faults of those who are most eminent and powerful.”
CANTO XVIII
v. 3. Temp’ring the sweet with bitter.] Chewing the end of sweet and bitter fancy. Shakespeare, As you Like it, a. 3. s. 3.
v. 26. On this fifth lodgment of the tree.] Mars, the fifth ot the @
v. 37. The great Maccabee.] Judas Maccabeus.