Book IX
.: _The Story of Eudorus._--T.
[135] MOLIÈRE, _Tartufe_, Act III. Sc. ii.:
"What affectation and blind real is this!"--T.
[136] SHAKESPEARE: _Othello, the Moor of Venice_, Act I. Sc. iii.--T.
[137] Thomas Otway (1652-1685), the principal tragic poet of the English classical school. The most famous of his tragedies, _Venice Preserved_, from which the following quotation is taken, appeared in 1682.--T.
[138] OTWAY: _Venice Preserved, or The Plot Discovered_, Act I. Sc. i.--T.
[139] Clément Marot (1497-1544), the poet, when compelled to fly from France on account of his scandalous life, took refuge in Béarn (1535), then at the Court of Ferrara, where he was secretary to Renée of France, and, finally, in Venice (1536).--T.
[140] MONTESQUIEU: _Lettres persanes._ Letter XXXI.: _Rhédi à Usbek, à Paris._--T.
[141] The incident of Anals will be found in the _Lettres persanes._ Letter CXLI.: _Rica à Usbek à <sup>***</sup>_--T.
[142] The cannon was fired when a nun took the veil.--T.
[143] _Corinne_: Book XV ., Chaps, VII. and IX.--T.
[144] _Corinne_: Book XVI ., Chap. III.--T.
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