NOTES TO THE SECOND BOOK.
"HOPE waits upon the flowery prime."]—
"Famine, and Sword, and Fire, crouch for employment."]—
Shakspeare.
"Monsters both!"]—Such was the cause of quarrel between the Houses of York and Lancaster; and of too many others, with which the page of History reproaches the reason of man.
"Oh! polish'd perturbation!—golden care!"]Shakspeare.
"The brave Bernois."]—Henry the Fourth of France. It may be said of this monarch, that had all the French sovereigns resembled him, despotism would have lost its horrors; yet he had considerable failings, and his greatest virtues may be chiefly imputed to his education in the School of Adversity.
"Delug'd, as with an inland sea, the vales."]—From the heavy and incessant rains during the last campaign, the armies were often compelled to march for many miles through marshes overflowed; suffering the extremities of cold and fatigue. The peasants frequently misled them; and, after having passed these inundations at the hazard of their lives, they were sometimes under the necessity of crossing them a second and a third time; their evening quarters after such a day of exertion were often in a wood without shelter; and their repast, instead of bread, unripe corn, without any other preparation than being mashed into a sort of paste.
