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after having sought all occasions of proving his prowess, he was never conquered but once, and this not till he was an Old Man.

Page 240.—The beginning is imitated from an Italian Sonnet.

Page 291, 3d line from the bottom.

Strait all that holy was unhallowed lies.

Daniel.

Page 321, line 10.—

"Seen the Seven Whistlers," &c.

Both these superstitions are prevalent in the midland Counties of England: that of "Gabriel's Hounds" appears to be very general over Europe; being the same as the one upon which the German Poet, Burger, has founded his Ballad of the Wild Huntsman.