Let no birds sing, no lambkins dance,
No fountains murmuring go:
Let shepherd's crook be made a lance.
For the martial horns do blow. [Exeunt.
FOOTNOTES:
[260] Bring you back. Reduco, Lat.—Steevens.
[261] Dux Nennius. The leaders of armies are on this account styled Dukes by many of our ancient English translators; as Duke Æneas, Duke Hannibal, &c.—Steevens.
[262] [Natives of Gallia Belgica, a province comprising the Duchy of Treves, part of Luxembourg, and the departments of the Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, and Vosges. Hazlitt's "Classical Gazetteer," 1851, p. 71.]
[263] The same turn of thought occurs in Mr Gray's celebrated ode called "The Bard"—
"Think'st thou yon sanguine cloud,
Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?"
—Steevens.
[264] Imitated from the first speech of Gloster in "King Richard III."
[265] "In bis fuit Ariovistus, qui naviculam deligatam ad ripam nactus ea profugit."—Cæsar "De Bello Gallico," lib. i. s. 53.