follows, both founded upon instinct.  The bishop closes as he began, with the consciousness that rewards for his way of living are of a substantial nature, while Gigadibs has nothing to show for his frankness, and does not hesitate to say that Gigadibs will consider his conversation with the bishop the greatest honor ever conferred upon him.  The poet adds some lines, somewhat apologetic for the bishop, intimating that his arguments were suited to the calibre of his critic, and that with a profounder critic he would have made a more serious defence.  Speaking of a review of this poem by Cardinal Wiseman (1801-1865), Browning says in a letter to a friend, printed in Poet-lore, May, 1896:  “The most curious notice I ever had was from Cardinal Wiseman on Blougram—­i.e., himself.  It was in the Rambler, a Catholic journal of those days, and certified to be his by Father Prout, who said nobody else would have dared put it in.”  This review praises the poem for its “fertility of illustration and felicity of argument,” and says that “though utterly mistaken in the very groundwork of religion, though starting from the most unworthy notions of the work of a Catholic bishop, and defending a self-indulgence every honest man must feel to be disgraceful, [it] is yet in its way triumphant.”

6.  Brother Pugin:  (1810-1852), an eminent English architect, who, becoming a Roman Catholic, designed many structures for that Church.

34.  Corpus Christi Day:  Thursday after Trinity Sunday, when the Feast of the Sacrament of the Altar is celebrated.

45.  Che:  what.

54.  Count D’ Orsay:  (1798-1852), a clever Frenchman, distinguished as a man of fashion, and for his drawings of horses.

113.  Parma’s pride, the ’Jerome . . .  Correggio . . . the Modenese:  the picture of Saint Jerome in the Ducal Academy at Parma, by Correggio, who was born in the territory of Modena, Italy.

184.  A chorus-ending from Euripides:  the Greek dramatist, Euripides (480 B. C.- 406 B. C.), frequently ended his choruses with this thought—­sometimes with slight variations in expression:  “The Gods perform many things contrary to our expectations, and those things which we looked for are not accomplished; but God hath brought to pass things unthought of.”

316.  Peter’s . . . or rather, Hildebrand’s:  the claim of Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) for temporal power and authority exceeding Saint Peter’s, the founder of the Roman Church.

411.  Schelling:  the German philosopher (1775-1854).

472.  Austrian marriage:  the marriage of Marie Louise, daughter of the Emperor of Austria, to Napoleon I.

475.  Austerlitz:  fought with success by Napoleon, in 1805, against the coalition of Austria, Russia, and England, and resulting in the alliance mentioned with Austria and fresh overtures to the Papal power and the old French nobility.

514.  Trimmest house in Stratford:  New Place, a mansion in the heart of the town, built for Sir Hugh Clopton, and known for two centuries as his “great house,” bought with nearly an acre of ground by Shakespeare, in 1597.