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_And when she spake._ _The Faerie Queene_, II., II. 24.

209. _Cloud-clapt._ Cf. ‘Cloud-capp’d towers.’ _The Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

211. _My friend L. H._ Leigh Hunt.

_The rival families of the Gerardeschi and the ——._ The missing word should be Visconti.

_Enriched._ Burns, _Tam o’ Shanter_, 16.

212. _Enchants the world._ Thomson, _The Seasons, Summer_, 1347.

_Lord Burghersh._ John Fane, eleventh Earl of Westmorland (1784–1859) was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Florence in 1814.

214. _Alien Bill._ In consequence of the flight from France during the Revolution, Alien Bills were passed in 1792–1793 giving the crown power to banish foreigners.

_Molière’s Tartuffe._ For the ordinance of the Archbishop of Paris see MM. Despois and Mesnard’s edition of Molière, vol. IV. p. 322.

_Fishy fume._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 168.

215. _Paved with good intentions._ An old saying: Hazlitt probably had in mind Dr. Johnson’s use of it. (See Boswell’s _Johnson_, ed. G. B. Hill, vol. II. p. 360.)

216. _Omne tulit punctum._ Horace, _Ars Poet._, 343.

218. _Otiosa Æternitas._ Milton’s _Sylvæ_, De Ideâ Platonicâ Quemadmodum Aristoteles Intellexit.

_Redi._ Francesco Redi (1626–1698), Italian physician, naturalist and poet. He helped in the compilation of the dictionary of the Academia Della Crusca. See Masson’s _Life of Milton_, 1881, vol. I. p. 786.