[374] Marshy; from the French _marais_, a marsh. [375] Gewgaws, or spangles. [376] He alludes to Ecclesiastes v. 11, the words of which are somewhat varied in our version: “When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?” [377] “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city.”—_Proverbs_ x. 15; xviii. 11. [378] “In his anxiety to increase his fortune, it was evident that not the gratification of avarice was sought, but the means of doing good.” [379] “He who hastens to riches will not be without guilt.” In our version the words are: “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”—_Proverbs_ xxviii. 22. [380] Pluto being the king of the infernal regions, or place of departed spirits. [381] Rent-roll, or account taken of income. [382] Wait till prices have risen. [383] “In the sweat of another’s brow.” He alludes to the words of Genesis iii. 19: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” [384] Planter of sugar-canes. [385] “Wills and childless persons were caught _by him_, as though with a hunting-net.”—_Tacit. Ann._ xiii. 42. [386] “Pythoness,” used in the sense of witch. He alludes to the witch of Endor, and the words in Samuel xxviii. 19. He is, however, mistaken in attributing these words to the witch: it was the spirit of Samuel that said, “To-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me.” [387] “But the house of Æneas shall reign over every shore, both his children’s children, and those who shall spring from them.”—_Æn._ iii. 97. [388] “After the lapse of years, ages will come in which Ocean shall relax his chains around the world, and a vast continent shall appear, and Tiphys shall explore new regions, and Thule shall be no longer the utmost verge of earth.”—_Sen. Med._ ii. 375. [389] He was king of Samos, and was treacherously put to death by Orœtes, the governor of Magnesia, in Asia Minor. His daughter, in consequence of her dream, attempted to dissuade him from visiting Orœtes, but in vain.—_Herod._ iii. 124. [390] Plut. Vit. Alex. 2. [391] “Thou shalt see me again at Philippi.”—_Appian Bell. Civ._ iv. 134. [392] “Thou, also, Galba, shalt taste of empire.”—_Suet. Vit. Gall._ 4. [393] Hist. v. 13. [394] Suet. vit. Domit. 23. [395] Catherine de Medicis, the wife of Henry II. of France, who died from a wound accidentally received in a tournament. [396] James I. being the first monarch of Great Britain. [397] “The eighty-eighth will be a wondrous year.”