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FOOTNOTES:

[25-1] Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).--Q. CURTIUS, vii. 4. 13.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.--SHAKESPEARE: _2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i._

[26-1] Methought I saw my late espoused saint.--MILTON: _Sonnet_ xxiii.

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.--WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet._

[26-2] If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?

GEORGE WITHER: _The Shepherd's Resolution._

[26-3] Written in a glass window obvious to the Queen's eye. "Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, 'If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.'"--FULLER: _Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419._

EDMUND SPENSER. 1553-1599.

Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.[27-1]

_Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 1._

A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine.

_Faerie Queene. Book i . Canto i. St. 1._

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

_Faerie Queene. Book i . Canto i. St. 9._

The noblest mind the best contentment has.

_Faerie Queene. Book i . Canto i. St. 35._

A bold bad man.[27-2]

_Faerie Queene. Book i . Canto i. St. 37._

Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

_Faerie Queene. Book i . Canto iii. St. 4._

Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall![27-3]

_Faerie Queene.