[39] ] When marriage is spoken of, my child, I feel like leaving at once.

[40] ] Let us only marry, the rest will take care of itself.

[41] ] Leonora’s own words.—See Goethe’s Works, vol. xxiv., p. 135.

[42] ] Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, canto v.—Translated by H. W. Longfellow.

[43] ] See Goethe’s Works, vol. xxiv., p. 37.—“Trip to Italy.”

[44] ] Goethe’s own words.—See correspondence of Duke Charles August with Goethe, vol. ii.

[45] ] Von Stein, the name of Goethe’s sweetheart—anglicized: Stone.

[46] ] Goethe’s correspondence with Madame von Stein, vol. ii., pp. 170, 171. Literal translation.

[47] ] Schiller’s Life, by Caroline von Wollzogen, p. 115.

[48] ] Schiller’s own words.—See “Schiller’s Correspondence with Körner,” vol. ii., p. 21.