[71] The peculiar dislike felt by the mediævals for the sea, is so interesting a subject of inquiry, that I have reserved it for separate discussion in another work, in present preparation, "Harbors of England."
[72] Married to Philip, younger son of the King of Navarre, in 1352. She died in 1394.
[73] "Three times the length of a human body."—Purg. x. 24.
[74] Purg. xii. 102.
[75] "Come unto these yellow sands."
"And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea sand."
[77] Compare parallel passage, making Dante hard or changeless in good Purg. viii. 114.
[78] So also in Isa. xxxv. 7., the prevalence of righteousness and peace over all evil is thus foretold: