NOTES.

Note 1, page 7, line 2.

The rapture of the strife—

Certaminis guadia, the expression of Attila in his harangue to his army, previous to the battle of Chalons, given in Cassiodorus.

Milo.

Scylla.

Charles V.

Note 2, page 8, line 1.
He who of old would rend the oak.—

Note 3, page 8, line 10.

The Roman, when his burning heart—

Note 4, page 9, line 1.

The Spaniard, when the lust of sway—

Note 5, page 12, line 10.

Thou Timour! in his captive's cage

The cage of Bajazet, by order of Tamerlane.

Note 6, page 13, line 1.

Or like the thief of fire from heaven

Prometheus.

Note 7, page 13, line 7.

The very Fiend's arch mock—

"The fiend's arch mock

"To lip a wanton, and suppose her chaste.”—

Shakspeare.