ni dormir,
Cum a quant ang cridar, ALOR!
D'ambas la partz; et aug agnir
Cavals voits per l'ombratge...."

"I tell you a zest far before
Aught of slumber, or drink, or of food,
I snatch when the shouts of ALOR
Ring from both sides: and out of the wood
Comes the neighing of steeds dimly seen...."

In a galley fight at Tyre in 1258, according to a Latin narrative, the
Genoese shout "Ad arma, ad arma! _ad ipsos, ad ipsos!_" The cry of the
Venetians before engaging the Greeks is represented by Martino da
Canale, in his old French, as "_or a yaus! or a yaus!_" that of the
Genoese on another occasion as _Aur! Aur!_ and this last is the shout
of the Catalans also in Ramon de Muntaner. (_Villemain, Litt. du Moyen
Age_, i. 99; _Archiv. Stor. Ital._ viii. 364, 506; _Pertz, Script._
xviii. 239; _Muntaner_, 269, 287.) Recently in a Sicilian newspaper,
narrating an act of gallant and successful reprisal (only too rare) by
country folk on a body of the brigands who are such a scourge to parts
of the island, I read that the honest men in charging the villains
raised a shout of "_Ad iddi! Ad iddi!_"

[9] A phrase curiously identical, with a similar sequence, is attributed
to an Austrian General at the battle of Skalitz in 1866. (_Stoffel's
Letters._)

[10] E no me posso aregordar
Dalcuno romanzo vertade
Donde oyse uncha cointar
Alcun triumfo si sobre!

[11] _Stella_ in _Muratori_, xvii. 984.

[12] _Dandulo_, Ibid. xii. 404-405.

[13] Or entram con gran vigor,
En De sperando aver triumpho,
Queli zerchando inter lo Gorfo
Chi menazeram zercha lor!

And in the next verse note the pure Scotch use of the word _bra_:--

Siche da Otranto se partim
Quella bra compagnia,
Per assar in Ihavonia,
D'Avosto a vinte nove di.

[14] The island of Curzola now counts about 4000 inhabitants; the town
half the number. It was probably reckoned a dependency of Venice at
this time. The King of Hungary had renounced his claims on the
Dalmatian coasts by treaty in 1244. (_Romanin_, ii. 235.) The gallant
defence of the place against the Algerines in 1571 won for Curzola
from the Venetian Senate the honourable title in all documents of
_fedelissima_. (_Paton's Adriatic_, I. 47.)

[15] Ma se si gran colmo avea
Perche andav