On the occasion of her marriage the Bucentaur came out in its splendour; and a bridge of boats was thrown across the Canal Grande for the bridegroom and his retinue of three hundred horse."--_Foscari_, by Samuel Rogers, _Poems_, 1852, ii. 93, note. According to another footnote (_ibid_., p. 90), "this story (_Foscari_) and the tragedy of the _Two Foscari_ were published within a few days of each other, in November, 1821." The first edition of _Italy_ was published anonymously in 1822. According to the announcement of a corrected and enlarged edition, which appeared in the _Morning Chronicle_, April 11, 1823, "a few copies of this poem were printed off the winter before last, while the author was abroad."] [ay] {132} _Do not deem so_.--[MS. M.] [45] {133}[Jacopo's plea, that the letter to the Duke of Milan was written for the express purpose of being recalled to Venice, is inadmissible for more reasons than one. In the first place, if on suspicion of a letter written but never sent, the Ten had thought fit to recall him, it by no means followed that they would have granted him an interview with his wife and family; and, secondly, the fact that there were letters in cypher found in his possession, and that a direct invitation to the Sultan to rescue him by force was among the impounded documents ("Quod requirebat dictum Teucrum ut mitteret ex galeis suis ad accipiendum et levandum eum de dicto loco"), proves that the appeal to the Duke of Milan was _bonâ fide_, and not a mere act of desperation. (See _The Two Doges_, pp. 101, 102, and Berlan's _I due Poscari_, p. 53, etc.)] [46] {134}[There is no documentary evidence for this "confession," which rests on a mere tradition. (_Vide_ Sanudo, _Vita Ducum Venetorum_, _apud_ Muratori, _Rerum Ital. Script_., 1733, xxii. col. 1139; see, too, Berlan, _I due Foscari_, p. 37.) Moreover, Almoro Donato was not chief of the "Ten" at the date of his murder. The three "Capi" for November, 1450, were Ermolao Vallaresso, Giovanni Giustiniani, and Andrea Marcello (_vide ibid._, p. 25).] [47] {135}["Examination by torture: 'Such presumption is only sufficient to put the person to the rack or torture' (Ayliffe's _Parergon_)."--_Cent. Dict._, art. "Question."] [48] [Shakespeare, Milton, Thompson, and others, use "shook" for "shaken."] [az] _As was proved on him_----.--[MS. M.] [49] [The inarticulate mutterings are probably an echo of the "incantation and magic words" ("incantationem et verba quas sibi reperta sunt de quibus ad funem utitur ... quoniam in fune aliquam nec vocem nec gemitum emittit sed solum inter dentes ipse videtur et auditur loqui" [_Die beiden Foscari_, pp. 160, 161]), which, according to the decree of the Council of Ten, dated March 26, 1451, Jacopo let fall "while under torture" during his second trial.] [ba] {137} _I'll hence and follow Loredano home_.--[MS. M.] [bb] _That I had dipped the pen too heedlessly_.--[MS. M.]