[5] Lectures on the History of France.
[6] Namely, Jacques van Artevelde, 'the noblest and the wisest man that ever ruled in Ghent,' and whom the factious citizens slew at his own door.
[7] Duke of Burgundy, in the last scene of Part II.
[8] Beginning:—
'Rocks that beheld my boyhood! Perilous shelf
That nursed my infant courage! Once again
I, stand before you—not as in other days
In your gray faces smiling; but like you
The worse for weather.'...
How sweet the lines:—
The sun shall soon
Dip westerly; but oh! how little like
Are life's two twilights! Would the last were first,
And the first last! that so we might he soothed
Upon the thoroughfares of busy life
Beneath the noon-day sun, with hope of joy
Fresh as the morn,' &c.
—Act II. scene ii.
[9] Preface to Notes from Life.
[10] Levana, of which an able translation was published by Messrs Longman in 1848.