[162]. But let thy spiders. King Richard II., Act III. Sc. 2 [treacherous feet ... thy sovereign’s enemies].
Bear the beating of so strong a passion. Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4.
CHAPTER XI
November 2. Numbered XII.
163. I also am a painter. See Vasari’s Lives (ed. Blashfield and Hopkins), III. 32, note 28.
Roubilliac. Louis Francis Roubilliac (d. 1762). See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, p. 89 and note thereto.
[164]. Bernini. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), painter, sculptor, and architect, the Michael Angelo of his day.
And when I think that his immortal wings. Heaven and Earth, Part I. Scene 1.
[165]. Thinly scattered to make up a shew. Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Sc. 1.
The Chevalier Canova. Antonio Canova, Venetian sculptor (1757–1822) was commissioned by the Roman Government in 1815, after the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, to recover the art treasures that had been taken to France.