“In the court of his uncle King Marc, the king of Cornwall, who at this time resided at the castle of Tyntagel, Tristram became expert in all knightly exercises. The king of Ireland, at Tristram’s solicitations, promised to bestow his daughter Iseult in marriage on King Marc. The mother of Iseult gave to her daughter’s confidante a philtre, or love-potion, to be administered on the night of her nuptials. Of this beverage Tristram and Iseult, on their voyage to Cornwall, unfortunately partook. Its influence, during the remainder of their lives, regulated the affections and destiny of the lovers. “After the arrival of Tristram and Iseult in Cornwall, and the nuptials of the latter with King Marc, a great part of the romance is occupied with their contrivances to procure secret interviews.--Tristram, being forced to leave Cornwall on account of the displeasure of his uncle, repaired to Brittany, where lived Iseult with the White Hands. He married her, more out of gratitude than love. Afterwards he proceeded to the dominions of Arthur, which became the theatre of unnumbered exploits. “Tristram, subsequent to these events, returned to Brittany, and to his long-neglected wife. There, being wounded and sick, he was soon reduced to the lowest ebb. In this situation, he dispatched a confidant to the queen of Cornwall, to try if he could induce her to accompany him to Brittany,” etc.--DUNLOP’S _History of Fiction_. NOTE [8], PAGE 167. _That son of Italy who tried to blow._ Giacopone di Todi. NOTE [9], PAGE 172. _Recalls the obscure opposer he outweighed._ Gilbert de la Porrée, at the Council of Rheims in 1148. NOTE [10], PAGE 173. _Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried._ The Montanists. NOTE [11], PAGE 174. _Monica._ See St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” book ix. chapter 11. NOTE [12], PAGE 175. _My Marguerite smiles upon the strand._ See, among “Early Poems,” the poem called “A Memory-Picture,” p. 23. NOTE [13], PAGE 199. _The Hunter of the Tanagræan Field._ Orion, the Wild Huntsman of Greek legend, and in this capacity appearing in both earth and sky. NOTE [14], PAGE 200. _O’er the sun-reddened western straits._ Erytheia, the legendary region around the Pillars of Hercules, probably took its name from the redness of the west under which the Greeks saw it. NOTE [15], PAGE 222. _Of the sun-loving gentian, in the heat._ The _gentiana lutea_. NOTE [16], PAGE 246. _Ye Sun-born Virgins! on the road of truth._ See the Fragments of Parmenides:-- ......κοῦραι δʹ ὁδὀν ἡγεμόνευον, ἡλἱαδες κοῦραι, προλιποῦσαι δὠματα νυκτός, εἰς ϕάος............ NOTE [17], PAGE 291. _The Scholar-Gypsy._