_Te nihil attinet_ _Tentare multa cæde bidentium_ _Parvos coronantem marino_ _Rore deos fragilique myrto_. _Immunis aram si tetigit manus_, _Non sumptuosa blandior hostia_ _Mellivit aversos Penates_ _Farre pio et saliente mica_, {233} Farewell, dear Horace; farewell, thou wise and kindly heathen; of mortals the most human, the friend of my friends and of so many generations of men. _Ave atque Vale_! FOOTNOTES {13} I am informed that the _Natural History of Young Ladies_ is attributed, by some writers, to another philosopher, the author of _The Art of Pluck_. {48a} Rape of the Lock. {48b} In Mr. Hogarth’s Caricatura. {49} Elwin’s Pope, ii. 15. {50} “Poor Pope was always a hand-to-mouth liar.”—_Pope_, by Leslie Stephen, 139. {64} The Greek ῥόμβος, mentioned by Lucian and Theocritus, was the magical weapon of the Australians—the _turndun_. {160} Lord Napier and Ettrick points out to me that, unluckily, the tradition is erroneous. Piers was not executed at all. William Cockburn suffered in Edinburgh. But the _Border Minstrelsy_ overrides history. _Criminal Trials in Scotland_, by Robert Pitcairn, Esq. Vol. i. part i. p. 144, A.D. 1530. 17 Jac. V. May 16. William Cokburne of Henderland, convicted (in presence of the King) of high treason committed by him in bringing Alexander Forestare and his son, Englishmen, to the plundering of Archibald Somervile; and for treasonably bringing certain Englishmen to the lands of Glenquhome; and for common theft, common reset of theft, out-putting and in-putting thereof. Sentence. For which causes and crimes he has forfeited his life, lands, and goods, movable and immovable; which shall be escheated to the King. Beheaded. {169} “The Lesson of Jupiter.”—Nineteenth Century, October 1885. {215} Mr. Swinburne’s and Mr. Arnold’s diverse views of Byron will be found in the _Selections_ by Mr. Arnold and in the _Nineteenth Century_. {216} The hills above San Remo, where rose-bushes are planted by the shrines. Omar desired that his grave might be where the wind would scatter rose-leaves over it. {218} Omar was contemporary with the battle of Hastings. {219} Per mandata Ducis, Rex hic, Heralde, quiescis, Ut custos maneas littoris et pelagi. {229} “Me neither resolute Sparta nor the rich Larissæan plain so enraptures as the fane of echoing Albunea, the headlong Anio, the grove of Tibur, the orchards watered by the wandering rills.”