Jesus, for my sole happiness, oh! give me tears
Which thou wilt wipe away.
[35]. The mother of the young wife who died.
[36]. Maia, or Majesta: not to be confounded with Maia, the mother of Hercules.
[37]. Cybele was the “Mater Deûm” of the Greeks and Romans.
[38]. L’Héroïsme en Soutane. By General Ambert. Paris: E. Dentu, Palais Royal. 1876.
[39]. Tu l’auras maigre et non pas gras (grasse—grâce).
[40]. At Ménilmontant a woman named Lefêvre proposed, amid cheers and bravos, to undermine the Cathedral of Notre Dame, fill it as full as it would hold with priests and nuns, and blow it up. At a club-meeting another woman—Leblanc—cried: “We must flay the priests alive and make barricades with their carcasses”; and at Trinity Church a woman argued thus on the existence of God: “Religion is a farce got up by men, and there is no God; ... if there were, he would not let me speak so. Therefore he is a coward, and no God....” And there were other and even more revolting things said and done.
[41]. The Catholic World, March, 1877, p. 777. We regret to be informed by the publisher that this really great drama is now out of print.
[42]. In the Roman triumphs a captive slave was bound to the car of the conqueror, into whose ear his office was to whisper of fortune’s instability.