the Council of Rheims, in 1148.]

[Footnote 11: NOTE 11, PAGE 184.

_Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried._

The Montanists.]

[Footnote 12: NOTE 12, PAGE 184.

_Monica._

See St. Augustine's _Confessions_, book ix. chapter 11.]

[Footnote 13: NOTE 13, PAGE 189.

_My Marguerite smiles upon the strand._

See, among "Early Poems," the poem called _A Memory-Picture_.]

[Footnote 14: NOTE 14, PAGE 213.

_The Hunter of the Tanagraean Field._

Orion, the Wild Huntsman of Greek legend, and in this capacity appearing
in both earth and sky.]

[Footnote 15: NOTE 15, PAGE 214.

_O'er the sun-redden'd western straits._

Erytheia, the legendary region around the Pillars of Hercules, probably
took its name from the redness of the West under which the Greeks saw
it.]

[Footnote 16: NOTE 16, PAGE 273.

_The Scholar-Gipsy._

"There was very lately a lad in the University of Oxford, who was
by his poverty forced to leave his studies there; and at last to
join himself to a company of vagabond gipsies. Among these
extravagant people, by the insinuating subtilty of his carriage, he
quickly got so much of their love and esteem as that they
discovered to him their mystery. After he had been a pretty while
exercised in the trade, there chanced to ride by a couple of
scholars, who had formerly been of his acquaintance. They quickly
spied out their old friend among the gipsies; and he gave them an
account of the necessity which drove him to that kind of life, and
told them that the people he went with were not such impostors as
they were taken for, but that they had a traditional kind of
learning among them, and could do wonders by the power of
imagination, their fancy binding that of others: that himself had
learned much of their art, and when he had compassed the whole
secret, he intended, he said, to leave their company, and give the
world an account of what he had learned."--GLANVIL'S _Vanity of
Dogmatizing_, 1661.]

[Footnote 17: NOTE 17, PAGE 281.

_Thyrsis._

Throughout this poem there is reference to the preceding piece, _The
Scholar-Gipsy_.]

[Footnote 18: NOTE 18, PAGE 287.

_Young Daphnis with his silver voice doth sing._

Daphnis, the ideal Sicilian shepherd of Greek pastoral poetry, was
said to have followed into Phrygia his mistress Piplea, who had
been carried off by rob