[56] [Garcias Lasso or Garcilasso de la Vega (1503-1536), of a noble family at Toledo, was a warrior as well as a poet, "now seizing on the sword and now the pen." After serving with distinction in Germany, Africa, and Provence, he was killed at Muy, near Frejus, in 1536, by a stone, thrown from a tower, which fell on his head as he was leading on his battalion. He was the author of thirty-seven sonnets, five canzoni, and three pastorals.--_Vide ibidem_, pp. 522-535.] {42}[p] _A real wittol always is suspicious_, _But always also hunts in the wrong place_.--[MS.] {43}[q] _Change horses every hour from night till noon_.--[MS.] [r] _Except the promises of true theology_.--[MS.] [57] ["Oh, Susan! I've said, in the moments of mirth, What's devotion to thee or to me? I devoutly believe there's a heaven on earth, And believe that _that_ heaven's in _thee._" "The Catalogue," _Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little_, 1803, p. 128.] {44}[s] _She stood on Guilt's steep brink, in all the sense_ _And full security of Innocence_.--[MS.] {45}[t] _To leave these two young people then and there.--[MS.]_ {46}[58] ["Age Xerxes.. eo usque luxuria gaudens, ut edicto præmium ei proponeret, qui novum voluptatis genus reperisset."--Val. Max, _De Dictis, etc._, lib. ix. cap. 1, ext. 3.] [59] ["You certainly will be damned for all this scene."--[H.]] {48}[60] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza iii. line 2, _Poetical Works_, ii. 329, note 3.] [u] _Our coming, nor look brightly till we come_.--[MS.] [v] _Sweet is a lawsuit to the attorney--sweet, etc_.--[MS.] [61] [So, too, Falstaff, _Henry IV._, act ii. sc. 2, lines 79, 80.] {49}[w] _Who've made us wait--God knows how long already,_ _For an entailed estate, or country-seat,_ _Wishing them not exactly damned, but dead--he_ _Knows nought of grief, who has not so been worried--_ _'T is strange old people don't like to be buried_.--[MS.] [62] [Byron has not been forgotten at Harrow, though it is a bend of the Cam (Byron's Pool), not his favourite Duck Pool (now "Ducker") which bears his name.] {50}[63] [The reference is to the metallic tractors of Benjamin Charles Perkins, which were advertised as a "cure for all disorders, Red Noses," etc. Compare _English Bards, etc._, lines 131, 132-- "What varied wonders tempt us as they pass! The Cow-pox, Tractors, Galvanism, and Gas." See _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 307, note 3.] [64] [Edward Jenner (1749-1823) made his first experiments in vaccination, May 14, 1796. Napoleon caused his soldiers to be vaccinated, and imagined that the English would be gratified by his recognition of Jenner's discovery. Sir William Congreve (1772-1828) invented "Congreve rockets" or shells in 1804. They were used with great effect at the battle of Leipzig, in 1813.] [65] ["Mon cher ne touchez pas à la petite Vérole."--[H.]--[Revise.]]