[Footnote 11]: "Cherished sister."
[Footnote 12]: An allusion, of course, to the theological dogma of the procession of the Holy Spirit from Father and Son.—Tr.
[Footnote 13]: "Nor let a god interpose unless a knot occurs which is worthy of such helper."
[Footnote 14]: "Nor let a fourth person (i. e. when you have the married couple and friend) intrude his advice."
[Footnote 15]: Angels' Song in Faust, where the sun completes his course with Donnergang.—Tr.
[Footnote 16]: Nebelflechen and Marktflecken are the German words; Flecken, like our spot, having two meanings, as if we should say spots of mist and dwelling-spots.—Tr.
[Footnote 17]: A coquetting with virtue as a virtuoso, of course Gaspard means. The word corresponds to religiosity.—Tr.
[Footnote 18]: Where the Prince had died and she had been made blind.
[Footnote 19]: Gesichts-schwester. Visionary is here used in the sense of seen in vision, as in the line where Æneas describes seeing Hector's ghost,
"I wept to see the visionary man."