Chapter XIV: April 6. Numbered XV

_Devoutly to be wished._ Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1.

184. _Honest sonsie bawsont face._ Burns, _The Twa Dogs_.

_The icy fang and season’s difference._ _As You Like it_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_Mr. Theodore Hook._ Theodore Edward Hook (1788–1841), novelist and political writer, the Lucian Gay of ‘_Coningsby_,’ and editor of the Tory ‘John Bull’ newspaper.

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186. _Here was sympathy._ _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_De Stutt—Tracey’s ‘Idéologie.’_ Antoine Louis Claude Comte Destutt de Tracy’s (1754–1836), _Élémens d’Idéologie_ was published in 1817–1818.

_Mignet’s French Revolution._ François-Auguste-Marie Mignet’s (1796–1884) _Histoire de la Révolution Française_ was published in 1824.

_Sayings and Doings._ Nine novels of Theodore Hook, published 1826–1829.

_Irving’s Orations._ Probably Edward Irving’s _Four Orations for the Oracles of God_, published in 1823, a third edition of which was issued in the following year. Cf. vol. iv. _The Spirit of the Age_, p. 228.

_The Paris edition of ‘Table Talk.’_ See vol. VI. Bibliographical Note to _Table Talk_.

187. Note. _Mr. Canning’s ‘faithlessness.’_ He had the reputation for preferring devious paths. ‘I said of him “that his mind’s-eye squinted,”’ wrote Croker to Lord Brougham, March 1839. See the _Croker Papers_, vol. II. p. 352.

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.

_Kean._ Edmund Kean (1787–1833).

194. _With cautious haste_ [wanton heed] _and giddy cunning_. _L’Allegro_, 141.