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[157] From Ideas, in Pictures of Travel, Works, II, 312-13.

[158] Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822), as Foreign Secretary under Lord Liverpool, became the soul of the coalition against Napoleon, which, during the campaigns of 1813-14, was kept together by him alone.  He committed suicide with a penknife in a fit of insanity in August, 1822.

[159] From Ideas, in Pictures of Travel, Works, II, 324.

[160] From English Fragments, 1828, in Pictures of Travel, Works, III, 340-42.

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[161] Song in Measure for Measure, IV, i.

[162][Transcriber’s note:  “From The Dying One:  for translation see p. 142.” in original.  Please see reference in text for Footnote 180.]

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[163] From Mountain Idyll, Travels in the Hartz Mountains, Book of Songs.  Works, ed. 1904, pp. 219-21.

[164] Published 1851.

[165] Rhampsinitus.  A Greek corruption of Ra-messu-pa-neter, the popular name of Rameses III, King of Egypt.

[166] Edith with the Swan Neck.  A mistress of King Harold of England.

[167] Melisanda of Tripoli.  Mistress of Geoffrey Rudel, the troubadour.

[168] Pedro the Cruel.  King of Castile (1334-69).

[169] Firdusi.  A Persian poet, author of the epic poem, the Shahnama, or “Book of Kings,” a complete history of Persia in nearly sixty thousand verses.

[170] Dr. Doellinger.  A German theologian and church historian (1799-1890).

[171] Spanish Atrides, Romancero, Works, ed. 1905, pp. 200-04.

[172] Henry of Trastamare.  King of Castile (1369-79).

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[173] garbanzos.  A kind of pulse much esteemed in Spain.

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[174] Adapted from Rom.  VIII, 26.

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[175] From The Baths of Lucca, chap.  IX, in Pictures of Travel, Works, III, 184-85.

[176] Romancero, book III.

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[177] Laura.  The heroine of Petrarch’s famous series of love lyrics known as the Canzoniere.

[178] Court of Love.  For a discussion of this supposed medieval tribunal see William A. Neilson’s The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love, Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, Boston, 1899, chap.  VIII.

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[179] Disputation, Romancero, book III.