Note 4.
“I love better the clash of the glass,
At table with my friends,
Than the lying glow
Of courts and marquises.”
[1] Gaviota is the name of a sea-gull. It applies familiarly to the female scold, imprudent, stupid, and of harsh manners, indicated by the well-known proverb: “The sea-gull—the older she is, the louder she screams.”
[2] Brief name for Geronimo, in Andalusia.
[3] In poetry—the North Star.
[4] See note 1.
[5] See note 2.
[6] See note 3.