The lean abhorred monster. Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Sc. 3.
No black and melancholic yew-trees. Webster’s The White Devil, Act IV. Sc. 2.
Pansies for thoughts. Hamlet, Act IV. Sc. 5.
[146]. The daughter of Madame d’Orbe. Sixième Partie, Lettre XI.
[146]. Ney. Michel Ney (1769–1815), Napoleon’s great general, ‘the bravest of the brave,’ who had five horses shot under him at Waterloo. He urged Napoleon to abdicate after the campaign of 1814, and on Napoleon’s return from Elba was sent to fight him. He went over to his old Emperor, however, and, after Waterloo, was arrested for high treason, condemned to death, and shot in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Massena. André Masséna (1756–1817), another of Napoleon’s generals, ‘the favoured child of victory.’
Kellerman. François Christophe de Kellermann (1735–1820), the successful general at Valmy (1792).
Fontaine. Jean de la Fontaine (1621–1695), the fabulist.
De Lille. Jacques Delille (1738–1813), French poet and translator of Paradise Lost.