[5] “The poet doubtless here refers to his Priory of St. Cosme-en-l’Isle; of which, Duperron, in his funeral oration on Ronsard, has said: ‘This Priory is placed in a very agreeable situation on the banks of the river Loire, surrounded by thickets, streams, and all the natural beauties which embellish Touraine, of which it is, as it were, the eye and the charm.’ Ronsard, in fact, returned thither to die.”—Sainte-Beuve, ‘Poésie Française au XVI^e. Siècle’ (Paris, 1869), p. 307. [6] I give a brief sketch of this in my book, “La Prusse et l’Autriche depuis Sadowa,” vol. i., p. 265. [7] “It is absolutely necessary for Dalmatia to become connected with Bosnia. As a Montenegrin guide one day remarked to Miss Muir Mackenzie, ‘Dalmatia without Bosnia, is like a face without a head, and Bosnia without Dalmatia is a head without a face.’ There being no communication between the Dalmatian ports and the inland villages, the former with their fine names are but unimportant little towns stripped of all their former splendor. For instance, Ragusa, formerly an independent Republic, has a population of 6,000 inhabitants; Zara 9,000; Zebeniko 6,000; and Cattaro, situated in the most lovely bay in Europe, and with a natural basin sufficiently spacious to accommodate the navy of all Europe, has but 2,078 inhabitants. In several of these impoverished cities, beggars have taken up their abode in the ancient palaces of the princes of commerce, and the lion of St. Mark overlooks these buildings falling into ruins. This coast, which has the misfortune to adjoin a Turkish province, will never regain its former position until good roads and railways have been constructed between its splendid ports and the fertile inland territory, whose productiveness is at present essentially hampered by the vilest imaginable administration.”—_La Prusse et l’Autriche depuis Sadowa_, ii. p. 151. 1868. [8] Lives of the Archbishops, iii, 76. [9] Camden’s Britannia. [10] Church History, Book IV. I. [11] Ibid., Book III. century xiii. [12] Causa Dei—the title of Bradwardine’s great work. [13] A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, by Francis Godwin, now Bishop of Landaff: 1615. [14] Cotton’s Abridgment of Records, p. 102, quoted by Lewis, in his Life of Wycliffe, p. 19. [15] See Milman’s Latin Christianity, Book XIII. chap. vi, and the document itself as given in the Appendix (No. 30) to the Life of Wycliffe, by Lewis. [16] See Lewis’s Life of Wycliffe, p. 55, and Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, vol. i. p. 584. [17] The date of this meeting has not been determined with certainty. [18] Fuller‘s Church History, Book IV. cent. xiv. [19] Milton‘s Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. [20] Milman‘s Latin Christianity, Book XIII. chap. iv. [21] See the Document itself in Lewis‘s Life of Wycliffe, pp. 59-67. [22] Shirley‘s Introduction to Fasciculi Zizaniorum, p. 49. [23] Wycliffe‘s Place in History, by Professor Burrows, p. 101.