XCIX.

Whate'er his youth had suffer'd, his old age
With wealth and talking made him some amends;
Though Laura sometimes put him in a rage,

I've heard the count and he were always friends. My pen is at the bottom of a page,

Which being finish'd, here the story ends; 'Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done,

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

NOTES TO BEPPO.

Note 1, page 301, stanza xiv.

Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below.
* Quæ septem dici sex tamen esse solent. »OVID.

Note 2, page 305, stanza xxv.

His name Giuseppe, called more briefly, Beppo.
Beppo is the Joe of the Italian Joseph.

Note 3, page 309, stanza xxxvII.

The Spaniards call the person a «cortejo,» etc.

Cortejo is pronounced « corteho,» with an aspirate, according to the Arabesque guttural. It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.

Note 4, page 312, stanza XLVI.

Raphael, who died in thy embrace, etc.

For the received accounts of the cause of Raphael's death, see his Lives.

While

Note 5, page 312, stanza XLVI.

yet Canova can create below?

(In talking thus, the writer, more especially Of women, would be understood to say, He speaks as a spectator, not officially,

And always, reader, in a modest way; Perhaps, too, in no very great degree shall he

Appear to have offended in this lay,

Since, as all know, without the sex, our sonnets

Would seem unfinish'd like their untrimm'd bonnets.)

THE

VISION OF JUDGMENT.

BY QUEVEDO REDEVIVUS.

SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAT TYLER."

« A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.>>