FOOTNOTES:

[2] _Notes from Life._

[3] Ibid.

[4] _Literary Remains._

[5] _Lectures on the History of France._

[6] Namely, Jacques van Artevelde, 'the noblest and the wisest man
that ever ruled in Ghent,' and whom the factious citizens slew at his
own door.

[7] Duke of Burgundy, in the last scene of Part II.

[8] Beginning:--

'Rocks that beheld my boyhood! Perilous shelf
That nursed my infant courage! Once again
I, stand before you--not as in other days
In your gray faces smiling; but like you
The worse for weather.'...

How sweet the lines:--

The sun shall soon
Dip westerly; but oh! how little like
Are life's two twilights! Would the last were first,
And the first last! that so we might he soothed