[Footnote 16:  these fellers are verry proppilly called Rank Heroes, and the more tha kill the ranker and more Herowick tha becum.—­H.B.]

[Footnote 17:  it wuz ‘tumblebug’ as he Writ it, but the parson put the Latten instid. i sed tother maid better meeter, but he said tha was eddykated peepl to Boston and tha wouldn’t stan’ it no how. idnow as tha wood and idnow as tha wood.—­H.B.]

[Footnote 18:  he means human beins, that’s wut he means. i spose he kinder thought tha wuz human beans ware the Xisle Poles comes from.—­H.B.]

[Footnote 19:  The speaker is of a different mind from Tully, who, in his recently discovered tractate De Republica, tells us, Nec vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says:  ’I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.’—­Areop.  He had taken the words out of the Roman’s mouth, without knowing it, and might well exclaim with Donatus (if Saint Jerome’s tutor may stand sponsor for a curse), Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerint!—­H.W.]

[Footnote 20:  That was a pithy saying of Persius, and fits our politicians without a wrinkle,—­Magister artis, ingeniique largitor venter.—­H.W.]

[Footnote 21:  There is truth yet in this of Juvenal,—­

’Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.’—­H.W.]

[Footnote 22:  Jortin is willing to allow of other miracles besides those recorded in Holy Writ, and why not of othere prophecies?  It is granting too much to Satan to suppose him, as divers of the learned have done, the inspirer of the ancient oracles.  Wiser, I esteem it, to give chance the credit of the successful ones.  What is said here of Louis Phillippe was verified in some of its minute particulars within a few months’ time.  Enough to have made the fortune of Delphi or Hammon, and no thanks to Beelzebub neither!  That of Seneca in Medea will suit here:—­

’Rapida fortuna ac levis
Praecepsque regno eripuit, exsilio dedit.’

Let us allow, even to richly deserved misfortune, our commiseration, and be not over-hasty meanwhile in our censure of the French people, left for the first time to govern themselves, remembering that wise sentence of AEschylus,—­

[Greek:  Apas de trachus hostis han neon kratae.]

—­H.W.]

[Footnote 23:  A rustic euphemism for the American variety of the Mephitis.—­H.W.]

[Footnote 24:  Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English.]

[Footnote 25:  Cited in Collier. (I give my authority where I do not quote from the original book.)]

[Footnote 26:  The word occurs in a letter of Mary Boleyn, in Golding, and Warner.  Milton also was fond of the word.]