"There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good--" Chapman: _Bussy d'Ambois_. 2. "The fann'd snow, That's bolted by the northern blast thrice o'er." Shakspeare: _A Winter's Tale_. "Snow in the fall, Purely refined by the bleak northern blast." Davenport: _The City Nightcap_. 3. "Like pearl Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn Upon the bashful rose." Middleton: _The Game at Chess_. "Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drive afield." Milton: _Lysidas_. 4. "Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen enfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say--Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up." Shakspeare: _Midsummer Night's Dream_. "Nicht Blitzen gleich, die schnell vorüber schiessen, Und plötzlich von der Nacht verschlungen sind, Mein Glück wird seyn." Schiller: _Die Braut von Messina_. G. Greenock. * * * * *{331} ERRORS CORRECTED. _I._--Sharon Turner's _Hist. of England_ (Lond. 1814. 4to.), i. 332. "The Emperor (Henry VI.) determined to extort an immoderate ransom; but, to secure it, had him (Richard Coeur de Lion) conveyed to a castle _in the Tyrol_, from which escape was hopeless."--_Note_ "104. In _Tiruali_. Oxened. MS." Ibid. p. 333: "He (Richard) was removed from the dungeon _in the Tyrol_ to the emperor's residence at Haguenau."--_Note_ "109. See _Richard's Letter to his Mother_. Hoveden, 726." The fortress, here represented to be in the _Tyrol_, is about 220 miles distant ("as the crow flies") from the nearest point in that district, and is the Castle of Trifels, which still crowns the highest of three rocky eminences (Treyfels = _Three Rocks_), which rise from the mountain range of the Vosges, on the southern side of the town of Annweiler. In proceeding from Landau to Zweibrücken (Deux-Ponts), the traveller may see it on his left. The keep is still in good preservation; and it was on account of the natural strength of its position that the imperial crown-jewels were formerly preserved in it. I am unable to refer at present to the MS. of Oxenedes (Cotton, Nero, D 2), which appears to give the erroneous reading of _Tirualli_ for _Triualli_ or _Trivalli_; but Mr. Turner might have avoided the mistake by comparing that MS. with the printed text of Hoveden, in which Richard is represented as dating his letter "de Castello de Triuellis, in quo detinebamur." _II._--Wright's _S. Patrick's Purgatory_ (Lond. 1844. 8vo.), p. 135.: "On the patent rolls in the Tower of London, under the year 1358, we have an instance of testimonials given by the king (Edward III.) on the same day, to two distinguished foreigners, one _a noble Hungarian_, the other a Lombard, Nicholas de Beccariis, of their having faithfully performed this pilgrimage."