had read and liked the "Seven
before Thebes."--_Letters_, 1900, iv. 174.]

[188] {404}[A cavity at the lower end of the lead attached to a
sounding-line is partially filled with an _arming_ (tallow), to which
the bottom, especially if it be sand, shells, or fine gravel,
adheres.--Knights's _American Mechanical Dictionary_, 1877, art.
"Sounding-Apparatus."]

[189] {405}[Compare _The Age of Bronze_, line 45, for the story of
Sesostris being drawn by kings. (See Diodorus Siculus, _Bibl. Hist._,
lib. i. p. 37, C., ed. 1604, p. 53.)]

[ct] {406} _And never offered aught as a reward_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[cu] {407} ----_that if thou wert a snail, none else_.--[MS. M.]

[190] {408}[Compare--"The iron tongue of midnight." _Midsummer Night's
Dream_, act v. sc. 1, line 352.]

[191] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xcvi. line 5,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 275, note I.]

[192] {409}[Compare--"With your leave, I will call a will-o'-the-wisp."
Goethe's _Faust_.]

[193] {410}[Compare--"Sleep she as sound as careless infancy." _Merry
Wives of Windsor_, act v. sc. 5, line 50.]

[194] {416}[At the siege of Magdeburg, May 19, 1631, "soldiers and
citizens, with their wives, boys and girls, old and young, were all
mercilessly butchered." "The city was set fire to at more than twelve
points, and, except the cathedral and about fifty houses, sank into soot
and ashes. It was not Tilly and his men, but Magdeburg's own people, who
kindled the city to a conflagration."--_History of the Thirty Years'
War_, by Anton Gindely, 1885, ii. 65, 66.]

[195] {418}[In Miss Lee's _Kruitzner_, Conrad meets his death in a
skirmish on the frontiers of Franconia.]

[196] {423}[Compare "Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat
the air" (Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2, lines 88, 89).]

[197] [Compare--

"Had his free breathing been denied
The range of the steep mountain's side."

_Prisoner of Chillon_, lines 142, 143.]

[198] [The Treaty of Prague was signed May 30, 1635.]

[199] {428}[For "the attachment of the nightingale to the rose," see
_Giaour_ lines 21-31, _Poetical Works_, 1900, in. 86, note 1.]

[200] {446}["_Gab._ I have yet an additional security. I did not enter
Prague a solitary individual; and there are tongues without that will
speak for me, although I should even share the fate of Stralenheim! Let
your deliberation be short.--_Sieg._ My promise is
solemn--sacred--irrevo