In conclusion, we must express our regret, that the author should not have added notes to the work—­the want of them will be seriously felt by every one; some of the satires, indeed, must escape the reader, unless he pay a degree of attention, which notes would have rendered unnecessary.  In his next edition, we trust that this deficiency may be supplied; and we anticipate as much instruction and entertainment, from the wide scope which such an undertaking will afford, as we have derived from the perusal of the text.  Cheerfully would we extend to him, if required, the leisure claimed by Spenser, after he had composed the first six books of his “Faerie Queene,” provided he would promise us similar conditions:—­

    “After so long a race as I have run
      Through Faery Land, which those six books compile,
    Give leave to rest me, being half foredonne,
      And gather to myself new breath awhile;

    “Then, as a steed refreshed after toyle,
      Out of my prison will I break anew,
    And stoutly will that second work assoyle,
      With strong endeavour, and attention due.”

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[APPENDIX FOOTNOTES]

[Footnote 1:  Scott’s Swift, vol. xi. p. 4]

[Footnote 2:  Aristoph. in Pace. 130.]

[Footnote 3:  Orlando furioso, Canto xxxiv.  St. 68 and 69.]

[Footnote 4:  Micromegas, Histoire Philosophique, chap. 8.]

[Footnote 5:  Fuller, a learned contemporary of the Bishop, has given us an amusing case of litigation, originating from this nourishing character of odours.—­

“A poor man, being very hungry, staid so long in a cook’s shop, who was dishing up meat, that his stomach was satisfied with only the smell thereof.  The choleric cook demanded of him to pay for his breakfast, the poor man denied having had any; and the controversy was referred to the deciding of the next man that should pass by, who chanced to be the most notorious idiot in the whole city be, on the relation of the matter, determined that the poor man’s money should be put betwixt two empty dishes, and the cook should be recompensed with the jingling of the poor man’s money, as he was satisfied with the smell of the cook’s meat.”—­Fuller’s Holy State, lib. iii. c. 12.]

[Footnote 6:  Aristophan. in pace. 137.]

[Footnote 7:  The idea of the Glonglims is the author’s.  Ariosto makes the lost intellect, of those who become insane upon the earth, ascend to the moon, where it is kept bottled.—­

“Era come un liquor suttile e molle,
Atto a esalar, se non si tien ben chiuso;
E si vedea raccolto in varie ampolle,
Qual piu, qual men capace, atte a quell’ uso.”

Orlando furioso, Cant. 34.  St. 83.]