ruitzner_ Gabor is always spoken of as "The
Hungarian." He is no doubt named after Bethlen Gabor, Prince of
Transylvania, who was elected King of Hungary, August, 1620.]

[166] {351}[Compare--"And so--for God's sake--hock and soda-water."
Fragment written on MS. of Canto I. of _Don Juan_.]

[167] {352}[On the 18th of August, 1619, Bethlen Gabor threw in his lot
with the Bohemians, and "wrote the Directors at Prague that he would
march with his troops, and in September would, in their defence, enter
Moravia."--History of the Thirty Years War, by A. Gindely, 1885, i. 166.
_Vide ibid._, for portrait of "Gabriel Bethlem, D. G. Princeps
Transsylvaniae, etc., AEtatis suae 40, A^o Christi, 1620."]

[168] {354}[From _super_, and _nagel_, "a nail." To drink _supernaculum_
is to empty the cup so thoroughly that the last drop or "pearl," drained
on to the nail, retains its shape, and does not run. If "the pearl"
broke and began to slide, the drinker was "sconced." Hence, good liquor.
See Rabelais' _Life of Gargantua, etc._, Urquhart's Translation, 1863,
lib. i, ch. 5.]

[co] {355} _Without means and he has not a stiver left_.--[MS. erased.]

[cp] {357} _ This is one of those to whom I owe aid_.--[MS. erased.]

[169] {364}[Compare Age of Bronze, line 130, _vide post_, p. 549.]

[170] {365}[For the "merchant dukes" of Florence, see _Childe Harold_,
Canto IV. stanza lx. line 4. See, too, _ibid_., stanza xlviii. line 8,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 375, and 365, note 1.]

[171] {367}["Your printer has made one odd mistake:--'poor as a _Mouse_'
instead of 'poor as a _Miser_.' The expression may seem strange, but it
is only a translation of 'Semper avarus eget!'" (Hor., _Epist. I._ ii.
56).--Letter to Murray, May 29, 1822, _Letters_, 1901, vi. 75.]

[cq] {368} ----_who furnish our good masters_.--[MS. M.]

[172] {385}[The Swedish garrisons did not evacuate Bohemia till 1649,
and then, as their occupation was gone, with considerable reluctance.
"It need not, therefore, be a matter of wonder that from the discharged
soldiers numerous bands of robbers ['_bande nere_,' or 'black bands:'
see _Deformed Transformed_, Part II. sc. i. line 65] were formed; that
these pursued on their own account the trade that they had formerly
carried on under the cover of military law, and that commerce became
again unsafe on the highways."--_History of the Thirty Years' War_, by
A. Gindely, 1885, ii. 382, 383.]

[173] [Albrecht Wenceslaus Eusebius,