[158] The head of Morvan, after the battle, was taken to the monk Witchar, who held on the Breton frontier an abbey, by permission of the Frankish king.
[159] Lez-Breiz was slain A.D. 818. In seven years after that date, Guionfarc’h, another of his family, arose, as a second Lez-Breiz, to resist the encroachments of France, and maintain the independence of Brittany.
[160] Ermold Nigel.
[161] This mystical plant was only to be plucked by the hand: if cut with any blade of steel, misfortune of some kind was always supposed to follow.
[162] Ablutions were anciently made before a repast at the sound of a horn; thus “korna ann dour”—to horn the water.
[163] The balls (six) in the arms of the Medici.
[164] Discorso circa il Reggimento i Governo degli Stati e Specialmente sopra il Governo di Firenze.
[165] O’Dell Travers Hill, F.R.G.S., author of a biographical sketch of Savonarola, and translator of The Triumph of the Cross. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1858.
[166] The most conclusive proof of the orthodoxy of Savonarola’s doctrine is found in the fact that his works, after a rigorous official scrutiny at Rome, were pronounced free from any error of faith or morals deserving censure.—Ed. C. W.
[167] Song of Solomon, i. 6.