[Footnote 11: Die 13 Septembris amb. illi Juvenes ad me redierunt, dicentes: Ne metue, sed rei quæ Tibi exhibebitur, attende! 2. Et conspexi ante me subito circulum quandam, magni solis instar, rubrum, ac velut sanguineum: in quo lineæ fuerunt, seu maculæ, albæ & nigræ, tanta mixtura se invicem variantes, ut jam nigrarum, jam albarum major cerneretur numerus: duravitque spectaculum istud per justum spatium. 3. Et cum ad me dixissent Aspice! Attende! nihil metue! nihil tibi accidet mali! 4. Ecce fulmen tribus vicibus exigui temporis intervallis sibi succedentibus intonuit, tam horrendé et terribilé, ut totus obrigescerem. 5. Circulus autem ille stabat porro coram me, maculæque albæ á nigris disjungebant sese: et circulus accessit tám propé mihi, ut manu tangere potuissem. 6. Fuit autem tam speciosus, ut toto vitæ tempore amænioris rei speciem nullam viderim: et maculæ albæ adeò candidæ ác jucundæ, ut admirationis modum nón invenerim. 7. Sed aliæ illæ maculæ à nube quadam horribilitér caliginosâ ablatæ sunt: in quâ nube tristem audivi ejulatum, etsi viderem neminem. 8. Verba tamén ejulatûs et lamentorum fuerant, bené perceptibilia, hæc; væ nobis qui nos caliginosæ nubi permisimus abstrahi à rotundo Divinæ gratiæ sanguine rubente circulo, quô nos Dei gratia in Christo dilectissimo filio suo comprehensos concluserat. _Lux é Tenebris_, p. 119.] [Footnote 12: Jortin’s Rem. on Ecclesiast. Hist. App. to vol. I.] [Footnote 13: Eighth Relation, p. 202.] [Footnote 14: De Miraculis Mortuorum.] [Footnote 15: Wepfer. Histor. Apoplectic. p. 459.] [Footnote 16: Garmann de Cadaverum Mumiis. Lib. iii. Tit. ii. p. 1042, 3.] [Footnote 17: On Genius.] [Footnote 18: De Apparitionibus mortuorum, Vivis ex Pacto factis. Lips. 1709.] [Footnote 19: Baronii Annales.--This story was told to Baronius, by the grandson of Mercato, who was Proto-notary of the church, and a man of the greatest probity, as well as of general knowledge.] [Footnote 20: De vita propria, cap. 38.] [Footnote 21: Cap. 37.] [Footnote 22: Polyhistor. Literar. Lib. i. Cap. 19. 9. Tom i. p. 217.] [Footnote 23: There are beauties, in the character of Don Quixote, which can only be understood by persons accustomed to lunatics. The dexterity and readiness with which he reconciles all events with the wayward system which he has adopted: his obstinacy in retaining and defending false impressions, and the lights of natural sagacity, and cultivated eloquence, which break frequently through the cloud that dims his understanding, are managed with consummate knowledge of partial insanity, though it is sometimes hardly perceptible to the general reader.] [Footnote 24: Memoirs de Trevoux, T. viii.--1726.] [Footnote 25: Hist. of the Irish Rebellion, by Sir John Temple, Kt.--p. 123.] [Footnote 26: Mem. de Sully, Liv. i.] [Footnote 27: Clarke’s Life of Nelson, vol. II.]