[53] The arms of the Medici family were six balls.
[54] As Lamoignon Malesherbes, the aged defender of Louis XVI., was being dragged to the scaffold, he struck his foot against a step in the prison, and remarked: "A Roman would have turned back."
[55] It was not long before they received notice of the death of Don John of Austria, caused by fever and the deep vexation of excessive care.
[56] i. e. The liberation of Lombardy and the kingdom of Naples from the Spanish yoke.
[57] Flagship.
[58] But no one counted them. This was the expression used by that judicious Ludovico Muratori narrating in his Annals the Battle of Lepanto.
God of the lyre, and goddesses of song
In vain for gold your faithful votaries sigh,
Small need and recompense to them belong;—