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[614-2] See Byron, page 553.

[616-1] See Stoughton, page 266.

[616-2] Plymouth rock.

[616-3] I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam, i._

[616-4] Sir Francis Drake entered the harbour of Cadiz, April 19, 1587, and destroyed shipping to the amount of ten thousand tons lading. To use his own expressive phrase, he had "singed the Spanish king's beard."--KNIGHT: _Pictorial History of England, vol. iii. p. 215._

[617-1] See Emerson, page 601.

[617-2] Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

GOETHE: _Wilhelm Meister,