[112]. Had Petrarch gained his Laura, etc.

‘Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,

He would have written sonnets all his life?’

Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 8.

[112]. St. Preux. In Rousseau’s Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (1760).

[113]. Till the sense aches at it. Othello, IV. 2.

Amorous toys of light-winged Cupid.

‘Light-wing’d toys of feather’d Cupid.’

Othello, I. 3.

Canova. Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Venetian sculptor.