{347}[438] [Pistol's "_Bezonian_" is a corruption of _bisognoso_--a rogue, needy fellow. Byron, quoting from memory, confuses two passages. In _2 Henry VI._, act iv. sc. 1, line 134, Suffolk says, "Great men oft die of vile bezonians;" in _2 Henry IV._, act v. sc. 3, line 112, Pistol says, "Under which King, Besonian? speak or die."] [439] ["Le Général Lascy, voyant arriver un corps, si à-propos à son secours, s'avança vers l'officier qui l'avait conduit, et, le prenant pour un Livonien, lui fit, en allemand, les complimens les plus flatteurs; le jeune militaire (le Duc de Richelieu) qui parlait parfaitement cette langue, y répondit avec sa modestie ordinaire."-_Hist. de la Nouvelle Russie_, ii. 211.] {348}[440] [_The Task_, bk. i. line 749. It was pointed out to Cowper that the same thought had been expressed by Isaac Hawkins Browne, in _The Fire-side, a Pastoral Soliloquy_, lines 15, 16 (_Poems_, ed. 1768, p. 125)-- "I have said it at home, I have said it abroad, That the town is Man's world, but that this is of God." There is a parallel passage in M.T. Varro, _Rerum Rusticarum_, lib. iii. I. 4, "Nee minim, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars humami aedificavit urbes."--See _The Task, etc._, ed. by H.T. Griffith, 1896, ii. 234.] [441] [Sulla spoke of himself as the "fortunate," and in the twenty-second book of his Commentaries, finished only two days before his death, "he tells us that the Chaldeans had predicted, that after a life of glory he would depart in the height of his prosperity." He was fortunate, too, with regard to his funeral, for, at first, a brisk wind blew which fanned the pile into flame, and it was not till the fire had begun to die out that the rain, which had been expected throughout the day, began to fall in torrents.--Langhorne's _Plutarch_, 1838, pp. 334, 335. See, too, _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_, stanza vii. _Poetical Works_, 1900, in. 308, note I.]