and
go with us into a foreign land?"--Hist. des Indes, par Raynal,
vi. 21.

NOTE d.

_So, when he breath'd his firm yet fond adieu_,

See COOK'S first voyage, book i. chap. 16.

Another very affecting instance of local attachment is related of his
fellow-countryman Potaveri, who came to Europe with M. de
Bougainville.--See LES JARDINS, chant, ii.

NOTE e.

_So Scotia's Queen, &c_.

Elle se leve sur son lict, et se met a contempler la France encore,
et tant qu'elle peut. BRANTOME, i. 140.

NOTE f.

_Thus kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire_.

To an accidental association may be ascribed some of the noblest
efforts of human genius. The Historian of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire first conceived his design among the ruins of the
Capitol; and to the tones of a Welsh harp are we indebted for the
Bard of Gray.--GIBBON'S Hist. xii. 432.--Mem. of Gray, sect. iv.
let. 25.

NOTE g.

_Hence home-felt pleasure, &c_.

Who can sufficiently admire the affectionate attachment of Plutarch,
who thus concludes his enumeration of the advantages of a great city
to men of letters; "As to myself, I live in a little town; and I
choose to live there, lest it should become still less,"--Vit. Dem.

NOTE h.

_For this young FOSCARI, &c_.

He was suspected of murder, and at Venice suspicion is good evidence.
Neither the interest of the Doge, his father, nor the intrepidity of
conscious innocence, which he exhibited in the dungeon and on the
rack, could procure his acquittal. He was banished to the island of
Candia for life.

But here his resolution failed him. At such a distance from home he
could not live; and, as it was a criminal offence to solicit the
intercession of any foreign prince, in a fit of despair he addressed
a letter to the Duke of Milan, and intrusted it to a wretch whose
perfidy, he knew, would occasion his being remanded a prisoner to
Venice.

NOTE i.

_And watch and weep in ELOISA'S cell_.

The Paraclete, founded by Abelard, in Champagne.

NOTE k.

_'Twas ever thus. As now at VIRGIL'S tomb_

Vows and pilgrimages are not peculiar to the religious enthusiast.
Silius Italicus performed annual ceremonies on the mountain of
Posilippo; and it was there that Boccaccio, quasi da un divino estro
inspirato, re-solved to dedicate his life to the muses.

NOTE l.

_So TULLY paus'd amid the wrecks of Time_.

When Cicero was quaestor in Sicily, he discovered the tomb of
Archimedes by its m