56-62. Such mixture of Christian and Pagan elements was a common feature in Renaissance art and literature. 58. =tripod=. The triple-footed seat from which the priestesses of Apollo at Delphi delivered the oracles. =thyrsus=. A staff entwined with ivy and vines, and borne in the Bacchic processions. 77. =Tully=. Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher. 79. =Ulpian=. A celebrated Roman jurist of the third century. 99. =Elucescebat=. Late Latin, from =elucesco=. The classical or Ciceronian form would be =elucebat=, from =eluceo=. Here appears the Bishop's love of good Latin. 108. =Term=. A pillar, widening toward the top, upon which is placed a figure or a bust. Who are grouped about the Bishop's bed? What does he desire? Why? What tastes does he show? Point out evidences of his crimes, his suspicion, his sensual ideals, his artistic tastes, his canting hypocrisy, his confusion of the material and the immaterial, and the persistency of his passions and feelings. Note the subtlety with which these things are suggested, especially lines 18-19, 29-30, 33-44, 50-52, 59-62, 80-84, 122-125. THE LABORATORY. (PAGE 113.) This is a little masterpiece in its vividness and condensation. The passions of hate and jealousy have seldom been so well portrayed. The time and place are probably France and the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Berdoe has called attention in his _Browning Cyclopaedia_, to the number of fine antitheses in the second stanza. Who are present in the scene? Who are to be the victims? Account for the speaker's _patience_ in stanza iii. Point out the things that show the intensity of her hate. Does she display any other feeling than hate and jealousy? HOME THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD. (PAGE 115.) Where is the speaker? What scene is in his imagination? Trace the growth in his mind of this scene: in color effects, in the kind of life introduced, in the intensity of the feeling, in the vividness with which he enters into it. What is the charm in lines 12-14? UP AT A VILLA--DOWN IN THE CITY. (PAGE 116.) 4. =Bacchus=. The Roman god of wine, frequently invoked in the garnishment of Latin and Italian speech. 42. =Pulcinello= is the Italian for clown or puppet, and the prototype of the English Punch. 48, =Dante=, =Boccaccio=, and =Petrarch=. Italy's first three great authors. See a biographical dictionary or encyclopaedia for their dates and their works. =St. Jerome= (340-420.) One of the fathers of the Roman, church. He prepared the Latin translation of the Bible known as the _Vulgate_. 48. =the skirts of St. Paul has reached=. Has done almost as well as St. Paul. 51. =Our Lady=. The image of the Virgin Mary. Observe our hero's taste and his religions solemnity. 52. =seven swords=, etc. Representing the seven "legendary sorrows" of the Virgin. See Berdoe's _Browning Cyclopaedia_, or Brewer's _Reader's Handbook_, or _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_ for the list.