[70] Not on account of bad riding, be it observed, but of daring and venturesome riding.
[71] Mr. Chorley had dedicated his last novel, Roccabella, to Mrs. Browning.
'Do you see this ring?
'Tis Rome-work, made to match
(By Castellani's imitative craft)
Etrurian circlets,' etc.
(The Ring and the Book, i. 1-4.)
[73] Mrs. Browning is here quoting from her own preface to Poems before Congress.
[74] Poetical Works, iv. 190.
[75] See 'Napoleon III. in Italy,' stanza 11, ibid. p. 181. The incident occurred at Macmahon's entry into Milan, three days after Magenta.
[76] Ibid. stanza 12.