Namque omnes plerumque cadunt in volnus et illam
Emicat in partem sanguis unde icimur ictu,
Et si cominus est hostem ruber occupat humor.”
De Rer. Nat. IV. 1041-44.
[1139] Gamal. ben Pedazhur’s Book of Jewish Ceremonies, London, 1738, p. 11.
[1140] Roger de Hoveden, ann. 1186; Roger of Wendover; Benedicti Abbatis Gesta Henricii II. ann. 1189.
[1141] Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
[1142] Nam ut in homicidio occulto sanguis e cadavere, tangente homicida, erumpit, quasi cœlitus poscens ultionem.—Demonologiæ Lib. III. c. vi.
[1143] Scott’s notes to the ballad of Earl Richard.
[1144] Cobbett’s State Trials, XI. 1371.