Note. Like that ensanguined [sanguine] flower. Lycidas, 106.

Note. Francesco Guicciardini’s (1483–1540), History of Italy from 1494–1532.

Note. Enrico Caterino Davila (1576–1631) of Padua, author of a History of the Civil Wars of France.

[190]. The merit of the death of Hotspur. 1 King Henry IV., Act V. Sc. 4.

He who relished. i.e., Rousseau.

The Magdalen Muse of Mr. Moore. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, p. 368.

[191]. Where Alps o’er [on] Alps arise. Pope, Essay on Criticism, II. 32.

This fortress, built by nature. King Richard II., Act II. Sc. 1.

Nodded to him. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Sc. 1.

[193]. Hemskirk. Maerten van Veen of Heemskerk, near Haarlem (1498–1574), a follower of Michael Angelo.