on, became
her chamberlain; and, according to the _Nouvelle Biographie
Universelle_, "plus tard il l'epousa." The count, who is said to have
been remarkably plain (he had lost an eye in a scrimmage with the
French), died April 12, 1829.]

[ir]
_And look along the sea;_
_That element may meet thy smile,_
_For Albion kept it free_.
_But gaze not on the land for there_
_Walks crownless Power with temples bare_
_And shakes the head at thee_
_And Corinth's Pedagogue hath now_.--[Proof ii.]

[is]
_Or sit thee down upon the sand_
_And trace with thine all idle hand_.--
[A final correction made in Proof ii.]

[256] ["Dionysius at Corinth was yet a king to this."--_Diary_, April 9.
Dionysius the Younger, on being for the second time banished from
Syracuse, retired to Corinth (B.C. 344), where "he is said to have
opened a school for teaching boys to read" (see Plut., _Timal._, c. 14),
but not, apparently, with a view to making a living by
pedagogy.--Grote's _Hist. of Greece_, 1872, ix. 152.]

[257] {312} The cage of Bajazet, by order of Tamerlane.

[The story of the cage is said to be a fable. After the battle of
Angora, July 20, 1402, Bajazet, whose escape from prison had been
planned by one of his sons, was chained during the night, and placed in
a kafes (_kafess_), a Turkish word, which signifies either a cage or a
grated room or bed. Hence the legend.--_Hist. de l'Empire Othoman_, par
J. von Hammer-Purgstall, 1836, ii. 97.]

[it] _There Timour in his captive cage_.--[First Proof.]

[258] [Presumably another instance of "careless and negligent ease."]

[259] ["Have you heard that Bertrand has returned to Paris with the
account of Napoleon's having lost his senses? It is a _report_; but, if
true, I must, like Mr. Fitzgerald and Jeremiah (of lamentable memory),
lay claim to prophecy."--Letter to Murray, June 14, 1814, _Letters_,
1899, iii. 95.]

[260] Prometheus.

[iu]
_He suffered for kind acts to men_
_Who have not seen his like again,_
_At least of kingly stock_
_Since he was good, and thou but great_
_Thou canst not quarrel with thy fate_.--[First Proof, stanza x.]

[261] {313}
"O! 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,
To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
And to suppose her chaste!"
_Othello_, act iv. sc. 1, lines 69-71.

[We believe there is no doubt of the truth of the an