any foreign prince, in a fit of despair he addressed

a letter to the duke of Milan, and intrusted it to a

wretch whose perfidy, he knew, would occasion his being remanded a prisoner to Venice.

See Dr. MOORE's View of Society in Italy,

vol. i. let. 14.

NOTE h. P. 24, 1. 12.

And watch and weep in ELOISA's cell.

The Paraclete, founded by Abelard, in Cham

pagne.

NOTE i. P. 24, l. 13.

'Twas ever thus. As now at VIRGIL's tomb

Vows and pilgrimages are not peculiar to the

religious enthusiast. Silius Italicus performed an

nual ceremonies on the mountain of Posilippo; and it was there that Boccaccio, quasi da un divino estro inspirato, resolved to dedicate his life to the

exemplified in the faithful Penelope, when she sheds tears over the bow of Ulysses. Od. xxi. 55.

If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild

The celebrated Ranz des Vaches; cet air si chéri des Suisses qu'il fut défendu sous peine de mort de le jouer dans leurs troupes, parce qu'il faisoit fondre en larmes, déserter ou mourir ceux qui l'entendoient, tant il excitoit en eux l'ardent désir de revoir ROUSSEAU, Dictionnaire de Musique.

leur pays.

NOTE n. P. 27, 1. 2.

Say why VESPASIAN lov'd his Sabine farm,

This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer in a small villa near Reate, where

he was born, and to which he would never add any embellishment; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetuSUET. in Vit. Vesp. cap. ii.

dini deperiret.

A similar instance occurs in the life of the ve

nerable Pertinax, as related by J. Capitolinus. Pos

teaquam in Liguriam venit, multis agris coemptis,

tabernam paternam, manente forma priore, infinitis ædificiis circundedit. Hist. August. 54.

And it is said of Cardinal Richelieu, that, when he built his magnificent palace on the site of the old family chateau at Richelieu, he sacrificed its symmetry to preserve the room in which he was born. Mémoires de Mlle. de Montpensier, i. 27.

An attachment of this nature is generally the

characteristic of a benevolent mind; and a long acquaintance with the world cannot always extinguish it.

"To a friend," says John Duke of Buckingham,

"I will expose my weakness: I am oftener missing

a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down, than pleased with a saloon which I built in its stead, though a thousand times better in all respects." See his Letter to the D. of Sh.

This is the language of the heart; and will re

mind the reader of that good-humoured remark in one of Pope's letters-" I should hardly care to have an old post pulled up, that I remembered ever since I was a child." POPE'S Works, viii. 151.

Nor did the Poet feel the charm more forcibly than his Editor. See HURD's Life of Warburton,

51, 99.

The elegant author of Telemachus has illus

trated this subject, with equal fancy and feeling, in the story of Alibée, Persan. See Recueil de Fables, composées pour l'Education d'un Prince.