it seemed to receive their prayer at evening, far away,
where they only saw the blue clouds rising out of the burning sea.

FOOTNOTES

[10] "Mela, e buon vino, con pace e carita," Memorie Storiche de'
Veneti Primi e Secondi, di Jacopo Filiasi (Padua, 1811), tom. iii.
cap. 23. Perhaps, in the choice of the abbot's cheer, there was some
occult reference to the verse of Solomon's Song: "Stay me with
flagons, comfort me with apples."

[11] Notizie Storiche delle Chiese di Venezia, illustrate da Flaminio
Corner (Padua, 1758), p. 615.

[12] "On the 14th day of April, 1374, there were found, in this
church of the first martyr St. Stefano, two hundred and more bodies
of holy martyrs, by the venerable priest, Matthew Fradello,
incumbent of the church."

[13] Notizie Storiche, p. 620.

[14] The intention is farther confirmed by the singular variation in
the breadth of the small fillet which encompasses the inner marble.
It is much narrower at the bottom than at the sides, so as to
recover the original breadth in the lower border.

[15] Its elevation is given to scale in fig. 4, Plate XIII., below.

[16] "Luogo de' ninfe e de' semidei."--_M. Andrea Calmo_, quoted by
Mutinelli, Annali Urbani di Venezia (Venice, 1841), p. 362.

[17] "The women, even as far back as 1100, wore dresses of blue,
with mantles on the shoulder, which clothed them before and
behind."--_Sansorino_.

It would be difficult to imagine a dress more modest and beautiful.
See Appendix 7.

[18] "Whom Eve destroyed, the pious Virgin Mary redeemed;
All praise her, who rejoice in the Grace of Christ."

Vide Appendix 8.

CHAPTER IV.

ST. MARK'S.

Sec. I. "And so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus." If as the
shores of Asia lessened upon his sight, the spirit of prophecy had
entered into the heart of the weak disciple who had turned back when his
hand was on the plough, and who had been judged, by the chiefest of
Christ's captains, unworthy thenceforward to go forth with him to the
work,[19] how wonderful would he have thought it, that by the lion
symbol in future ages he was to be represented among men! how woful,
that the war-cry of his name should so often reanimate the rage of the
soldier, on those very plains where he himself had failed in the courage
of the Christian, and so often dye with fruitless blood that very
Cypriot Sea, ov