Nor grapes which hide the hill with rich festoons;
Nor fat Bologna’s valley, have I chose;
What is your wish then? May I speak?—repose.
[36] Thy knowledge is nothing till other men know that thou knowest it.
[37] Methinks there seems to be much slavery required from those who inhabit your fine free country of England.
[38] In the fine cieling of Palazzo Ludovigi at Rome, the Hours which surround Aurora’s chariot are employed in extinguishing the Stars with their hands.
[39] One volume of this Leonardiana is now in the private library of the king of England at the queen’s house in the park, preserved from Charles or James the First’s collection, and written with the left hand, or rather backwards, to be read only with the help of a mirror.
[40] All so natural and pretty,—quite in the English style.
[41] That is, with a heap of friends about one in this manner.
[42] Oh! God keep one from that.