Footnotes

[539:1] See Waller, pages 219-220.

[540:1]

Medio de fonte leporum

Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat

(In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers).—Lucretius: iv. 1133.

[541:1] "War even to the knife" was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Saragossa, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808.

[541:2] See Waller, page [221].

[542:1] See Sheridan, page [443].

[543:1] I am a part of all that I have met.—Tennyson: Ulysses.