[209] ——Sinistra cava prædixit ab ilice Cornix.

[210] Alluding to the table of Icarus:

Icarus Icariis nomina fecit aquis.

Chelidonian, from χελιδὼν a swallow.

[211] Otherwise called martlets. Dryden.

[212] A parody on Lee's famous rant in "Œdipus."

"May there not be a glimpse, one starry spark,

But gods meet gods, and jostle in the dark."

[213] An old Saxon word for a village.

[214] It is a vulgar idea, that a dead swallow, suspended in the air, intimates a change of wind, by turning its bill to the point from which it is to blow.