Note 1. The noon of manhood to a myrtle shade! Sacred to Venus is the myrtle fhade. Dryden. Note 2. Thy woes, Arion!] Falconer, in his poem, The Shipwreck, fpeaks of himself by the name of Arion. See Falconer's Shipwreck, Canto III. Note 3. The Robber Moor. See Schiller's tragedy of the Robbers, Scene V. G Note 4. What millions died that Cæfar might be great. The carnage occafioned by the wars of Julius Cæfar has been usually estimated at two millions of men. Note 5. Or learn the fate that bleeding thousands bore, March'd by their Charles to Dneiper's fwampy fhore. In this extremity (fays the Biographer of Charles XII. of Sweden, speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa), the memorable winter of 1709, which was still more remarkable in that part of Europe than in France, deftroyed numbers of his troops; for Charles refolved to brave the seasons as he had done his enemies, and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold. It was in one of these marches that two thousand men fell down dead with cold before his eyes. Note 6. As on Iona's height. The natives of the island of St. Iona have an opinion, that on certain evenings every year, the tutelary faint, Columba, is seen on the top of the church fpires counting the furrounding iflands, to fee that they have not been funk by the power of witchcraft. Note 7. And part, like Ajut,-never to return! See the history of Ajut and Anningait in the Rambler. |