allowed to
visit Scotland, and confer with his people on the terms of his ransom.
John was received with royal honours in England, and during the whole of
his residence here was surrounded with regal luxury and state.]

[Footnote 125: Denham's Cooper's Hill:

----Great Edward, and thy greater son,
The lilies which his father wore, he won.

Edward III. claimed the crown of France by descent, and quartered the
French fleur-de-lis on his shield before the victories of the Black
Prince had made the assumption something more than an empty boast.]

[Footnote 126: Originally thus in the MS.

When brass decays, when trophies lie o'er-thrown,
And mould'ring into dust drops the proud stone,
From Windsor's roofs, &c.--WARBURTON.]

[Footnote 127: He was a Neapolitan. Without much invention, and with
less taste, his exuberant pencil was ready at pouring out gods,
goddesses, kings, emperors, and triumphs, over those public surfaces on
which the eye never rests long enough to criticise,--I mean ceilings and
staircases. Charles II. consigned over Windsor to his pencil. He
executed most of the ceilings there, one whole side of St. George's
Hall, and the chapel. On the accession of James II., Verrio was again
employed at Windsor in Wolsey's Tomb-house.--HORACE WALPOLE.]

[Footnote 128: Pope had in his head this couplet of Halifax:

The wounded arm would furnish all their rooms,
And bleed for ever scarlet in the looms.--HOLT WHITE.]

[Footnote 129: Henry VI.--POPE.]

[Footnote 130: Edward IV.--POPE.]

[Footnote 131: The Land's End in Cornwall is called by Diodorus Siculus,
_Belerium promentorium_, perhaps from Bellerus, one of the Cornish
giants with which that country and the poems of old British bards were
once filled.--T. WARTON.]

[Footnote 132: Dryden's translation of the tenth Satire of Juvenal, ver.
236:

Whom Afric was not able to contain
Whose length runs level with th' Atlantic main.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 133: Dr. Chetwood's verses to Roscommon:

Make warlike James's peaceful virtues known.--WAKEFIELD.]

[Footnote 134: Charles I. was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
The precise spot was a matter of doubt till an accidental aperture was
made in 1813 into the vault of Henry VIII., when a lead coffin was
discovered bearing the inscription "King Charles, 1648." It was opened
in the presence of the Regent; and the corpse was in a sufficient state
of preservation t