shop from sending
reinforcements; and Philemon's elephant not having an opportunity of
sweeping across the plain to come to the timely aid of the
king,[226] the victory was speedily obtained, for the men upon the
backs of Narcottus's elephants kept up so tremendous a discharge of
arrows that the monarch was left without a single attendant: and, of
necessity, was obliged to submit to the generosity of his captors.

[Footnote 223: "I think _the Bishops_ extremely considerable
throughout the whole game. One quality too they have, which
is peculiar to themselves; this is that, throughout the
whole game, they have a _steadiness_ in their conduct,
superior to men of any other denomination on the board; as
they never change their colour, but always pursue the path
in which they set out." _The same_ (vid. 206-7) p. 20.]

[Footnote 224: This truly chivalrous speech may be seen
extracted in Mr. Burnet's _Specimens of English Prose
Writers_, vol. i., 269. One of Virgil's heroes, to the best
of my recollection, dies serenely upon thinking of his
beloved countrymen:

----dulces moriens reminiscitur Argos!]

[Footnote 225: It is always pleasant to me to make
comparisons with eminent book-patrons, or, if the reader
pleases, bibliomaniacs. CARDINAL XIMENES was the promoter
and patron of the celebrated Complutensian Polyglott Bible;
concerning which I have already submitted some account to
the public in my _Introduction to the Classics_, vol. i.,
pp. 7, 8. His political abilities and personal courage have
been described by Dr. Robertson (in his history of Charles
V.), with his usual ability. We have here only to talk of
him as connected with books. Mallinkrot and Le Long have
both preserved the interesting anecdote which is related by
his first biographer, Alvaro Gomez, concerning the
completion of the forementioned Polyglott. "I have often
heard John Brocarius (says Gomez) son of Arnoldus Brocarius,
who printed the Polyglott, tell his friends that, when his
father had put the finishing stroke to the last volume, he
deputed _him_ to carry it to the Cardinal. John Brocarius
was then a lad; and, having dressed himself in an elegant
suit of clothes, he gravely approached Ximenes, and
delivered the volume into his hands. 'I render thanks to
thee, oh God!' exclai