9 Bears in his cap the badge of crimson hue, Which tells you whom to shun and whom to greet. Stanza 1. lines 2 and 3. The red cockade with «Fernando Septimo» in the centre. 10. The ball-pil'd pyramid, the ever-blazing match. Stanza li. line last. All who have seen a battery will recollect the pyramidal form in which shot and shells are piled. The Sierra Morena was fortified in every defile through which-I passed in my way to Seville. 11. Foil'd by a woman's hand, before a batter'd wall. Stanza lvi. line last. Such were the exploits of the Maid of Saragoza. When the author was at Seville she walked daily on the Prado, decorated with medals and orders, by command of the Junta. 12. The seal Love's dimpling finger hath impress'd Denotes how soft that chin which bears his touch. Stanza lviii. lines I and 2. Sigilla in mento impressa Amoris digitulo 13. Oh; thou Parnassus! AUL. GEL. Stanza, lx. line 1. These stanzas were written in Castri (Delphos), at the foot of Parnassus, now called Λιακυρα Liakura. 14. Fair is proud Seville; let her country boast Her strength, herwealth, her site of ancient days. Stanza lxv. lines 1 and 2. Seville was the HISPALIS of the Romans. 15. Ask ye, Bæotian shades! the reason why? Stanza lxx. line 5. This was written at Thebes, and consequently in the best situation for asking and answering such a question; not as the birth-place of Pindar, but as the capital of Bœotia, where the first riddle was propounded and solved. 16. Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. Stanza Ixxxii. line last. <<<Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat." Luc. 17. A traitor only fell beneath the feud. Stanza lxxxv. line 7. Alluding to the conduct and death of Solano, the Governor of Cadiz. 18. War even to the knife!» Stanza lxxxvi. line last. War to the knife. » Palafox's answer to the French General at the siege of Saragoza. 19. And thou, my friend! etc. Stanza xci. line 1. The Honourable I*. W**. of the Guards, who died of a fever at Coimbra. I had known him ten years, the better half of his life, and the happiest part of mine. In the short space of one month I have lost her who gave me being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of YOUNG are no fiction: ANW <<«Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was bazotzob slain, And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn. » I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, were he not too much above all praise of mine. His powers of mind, shown in the attainment of greater honours, against the ablest candidates, than those of any graduate on record at Cambridge, have sufficiently established his fame on the spot where it was acquired, while his softer qnalities live in the recollection of friends who loved him too well to envy his superiority. NOTES TO CANTO II. 1. sm bed despite of war and wasting fire Stanza i. line 4. PART of the Acropolis was destroyed by the explosion of a magazine during the Venetian siege. 2. But worse than steel and flame, and ages slow, Is the dread sceptre and dominion direla Of men who never felt the sacred glow That thoughts of thee and thine on polsh'd breasts bestow. sends mods Stanza i. line 6. We can all feel, or imagine, the regret with which the ruins of cities, once the capitals of |