Between the stirrup and the ground,
I mercy ask'd; I mercy found.
[685:1] I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.—2 Esdras xiv. 25.
[685:2] The oft-quoted lines,—
A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,
Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won,
have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems.
[685:3] Hume: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8.
[686:1] The same proverb existed in German:—
So Adam reutte, und Eva span,