Chapter 18

[162]Un Nègre et une Négresse, etc.: Causes Célèbres, Tom. XXXVI. pp. 50, 51, 66.[163]Ibid., pp. 82, 83.[164]Encyclopédie (Paris, 1751-72), art.Esclavage, Tom. V. p. 939.[165]De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. XV. ch. 5.[166]Remarques sur les Pensées de Pascal: Œuvres de Condorcet, par O’Connor et Arago, Tom. III. p. 650.[167]See,ante, Lecture on Lafayette, Vol. V. pp. 392, 398.[168]Ibid., p. 398.[169]“Nam ipsi Belgæ servos non habent, nisi in Asia, Africa, et America.”—Quæstiones Juris Publici, Lib. I. cap. 3.[170]Voyage de Hollande, 1773: Œuvres de Diderot (Paris, 1821), Tom. XXI. p. 294.[171]Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. II. pp. 471, 472.[172]Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, Vol. I. p. 379.[173]Ibid., History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. III. p. 476, note.[174]Ibid., History of the Conquest of Mexico, Vol. III. pp. 345, 346.[175]Soto, De Justitia et Jure, Lib. IV. Quæst. 2, Art. 2.[176]Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, Sec. 3: Miscellaneous Works (London, 1851), p. 24.[177]Southey, History of Brazil (London, 1810-19), Vol. II. ch. 26, pp. 476, 479.[178]Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. I. pp. 163, 172.[179]Balmés, Protestantism and Catholicity (London, 1849), Note XV. § 7, p. 378.[180]First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801: Writings, Vol. VIII., p. 4.[181]See,ante, Vol. VIII. p. 361.[182]This last requirement was the substance of a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, adopted in the House February 20, 1866, by a vote of 109 Yeas to 40 Nays, and in the Senate March 2d, Yeas 29, Nays 18.[183]Hon. Alexander H. Rice, a Representative of Boston, being absent from Boston, addressed a letter to the President.[184]Baconv.Bancroft, 3 Law Reporter, 387. See, also, Leev.Lincoln, 1 Story, R., 610.[185]This incident is related by Mr. Sumner in his Introduction to the Boston edition of the Nasby Letters, in 1872.[186]“Ce furent les plus grands intérêts de l’univers décidés par des rencontres de patrouilles.”—Mémoires, publiés par sa Famille, Tom. V. p. 167.[187]Journal of the Federal Convention, September 12, 1787, p. 368.[188]Letter, August 1, 1786: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. pp. 187, 188.[189]Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858: Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, p. 1.[190]Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858: Political Debates, p. 2.[191]Political Debates, p. 75.[192]Ibid., p. 12.[193]Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858: Political Debates, pp. 23, 24.[194]Ibid., pp. 35, 36.[195]Political Debates, pp. 51, 52.[196]Political Debates, p. 63.[197]Ibid., p. 71.[198]Ibid., p. 83.[199]Political Debates, p. 116.[200]Ibid., p. 178.[201]Political Debates, p. 225.[202]Crosby’s Life of Lincoln, pp. 32, 33.[203]Boston Daily Advertiser, April 14, 1859.[204]Speech before the State Convention of Georgia, January 18, 1861: McPherson’s Political History of the United States during the Great Rebellion (2d edit.), p. 26.[205]Speech in the Senate of the United States, December 10, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 29.[206]Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, pp. 154, 155.[207]Ibid., p. 155.[208]Ibid.[209]“Wenn so viel Teufel zu Worms wären als Ziegel auf den Dächern, noch wollt ich hinein!”—Merle D’Aubigné,History of the Reformation, (Glasgow, 1846,) Vol. II. pp. 167, 168, Book VII. ch. 7.[210]Speech on the Mexican War, January 12, 1848: Congressional Globe, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 156.[211]Letter to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney: Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, p. 617.[212]Speech at Montgomery, February 16, 1861: Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 127; art.Confederate States.[213]Speech at Philadelphia, February 21, 1861: Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, p. 155. See, also, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861: Ibid., p. 165.[214]Annual Message, December 6, 1864: Executive Documents, H. of R., 38th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 14.[215]Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act I. Sc. 3.[216]Speech intended to be delivered at a Meeting of the Freeholders of Middlesex, September 9, 1780: Memoir, by Lord Teignmouth, (London, 1806,) p. 187.[217]The Age of Chivalry, by Thomas Bulfinch, p. 84.[218]Drawn by Mr. Sumner.Ante, Vol. IX. pp. 307-312.[219]It was sent to Mr. Bright.[220]Hon. Edward Everett.[221]Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, pp. 412, 413.[222]Ibid.[223]Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 2.[224]Uhland, The Minstrel’s Return, tr. W. H. Furness: The Dial, p. 412, July, 1860.[225]Edward the First, called the English Justinian, is also known as Longshanks.[226]Tiberius Gracchus.—Velleius Paterculus,Historia Romana, Lib. II. c. 2, § 2.[227]Congressional Globe, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, p. 1042.[228]Speech in Springfield, July 17, 1858: Political Debates, p. 55.[229]Letter to General Curtis, January 2, 1863: McPherson’s Political History of the United States during the Rebellion (2d edit.), Appendix, p. 534.[230]July 18, 1864. McPherson’s Political History of the United States during the Rebellion (2d edit.), p. 301.[231]Letter to the Union Convention in Illinois, August 26, 1863: Ibid., p. 335.[232]Fourth Annual Message, Dec. 6, 1864.[233]Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.[234]Bacon, Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain: Works, ed. Spedding, (London, 1857-59,) Vol. VII. p. 47.[235]Suetonius, Vespasianus, Cap. XIV.[236]Dante died at this age; also Pliny the philosopher, Pope the poet, Gibbon the historian; and at this age Charles the Fifth resigned his empire and withdrew to a monastery.[237]Letter to Henry Dundas, April 9, 1792: Works (London, 1801-27), Vol. IX. p. 281.[238]Isaiah, xiii. 11, 12.[239]Oliver Wendell Holmes.[240]Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham.[241]At this stage of his speech Mr. Sumner called attention to M. Kapnist, a Russian gentleman belonging to the Chancery of the Emperor, who was on the platform. The allusion was received by the Convention with applause, which M. Kapnist acknowledged by rising and bowing.[242]Rev. Ichabod Wiswall to Gov. Thomas Hinckley, of Plymouth, November 5, 1691: Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, Vol. I. p. 413; Hinckley Papers, Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 4th Ser. Vol. V. p. 301.[243]Moniteur, May 21, 1850, p. 1761.[244]Acts of July 2, 1862, and January 24, 1865: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502; Vol. XIII. p. 424.[245]Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.[246]William Lloyd Garrison was in the habit of calling it “a covenant with Death and a league with Hell.”[247]Lincoln and Johnson, their Plan of Reconstruction and the Resumption of National Authority; First Paper: Hartford Daily Times, March 19, 1872.[248]Mr. Davis’s brilliant life was closed by an early death, December 30, 1865, which deprived the country of his inestimable services in Reconstruction. Seepost, Vol. XIII. p. 104.[249]Ante, Vol. X. p. 167.[250]Ante, Vol. XI. p. 351.[251]Ante, p. 179.[252]Ante, p. 349.[253]Thirty-seventh Cong. 1st Sess., July 19, 1861: House Journal, p. 117; Cong. Globe, p. 210.[254]Thirty-eighth Cong. 1st Sess., May 4, 1864: Senate Journal, p. 401; Cong. Globe, p. 2087. See,ante, Vol. IX. pp. 169-175, Speech on the Constitutional Quorum of the Senate.[255]Vol. I. § 776, note.[256]Ante, pp. 307, 308.[257]Æneïs, Lib. III. 420, 421.[258]Seneca, Hercules Œtæus, 235, 236.[259]Odyssey, tr. Pope, Book XII. 129-132.[260]Ibid., 107-114.[261]Ibid., 52-56.[262]In Joannis Evangelium Tract. XXXVI. § 9.[263]Comus, 257-259.[264]Book II. 659-661.[265]Book II. 1016-1020.[266]Merchant of Venice, Act III. Sc. 5.[267]“Mais le malheur de la dame fut que, tumbant de Scylle en Carybde,” etc.—Vies des Dames Illustres, Discours VI. art. 2: Œuvres (Paris, 1822-23), Tom. V. p. 201.[268]La Vieille et les Deux Servantes: Fables, Liv. V. 6.[269]Liberty, Part IV. 1075, 1076.[270]Argument in the Rhode Island Case, January 27, 1848: Works, Vol. VI. p. 242.[271]“Quæ Charybdis tam vorax? Charybdin dico? quæ, si fuit, fuit animal unum.”—Philippica II.c. 27. See, also, In Verrem Act. II. Lib. V. c. 56; De Oratore, Lib. III. c. 41.[272]Adagia, Chil. I. Cent. V. Prov. 4: Opera (Lugd. Batav., 1703), Tom. II. col. 184.[273]Ibid., col. 183.[274]Cent. XVI. Prov. 49: Leutsch, Parœmiographi Græci (Gottingæ, 1851), Tom. II. p. 672.[275]Adagia, Chil. I. Cent. V. Prov. 5: Opera, Tom. II. col. 184.[276]Ibid., Lucian, Necyomant., 4.[277]Satiræ, I. ii. 24, 27.[278]Adagia, Chil. I. Cent. V. Prov. 3: Opera, Tom. II. col. 182. Terent., Phormio, 767.[279]Epist. MCCLXI., Joanni Vergaræ, Nov. 19, 1533: Opera, Tom. III. col. 1483.[280]Epist. DLXXIV., Gulielmo Waramo, Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, Maii 24, 1521: Ibid., col. 645.[281]Epist. XIII., Joanni Sixtino Frisio, Oxoniæ, Oct. 28, 1497: Ibid., col. 11.[282]Epist. CLXV., Rogerio Wentfordo, 1514: Ibid., col. 141.[283]Jortin’s Life of Erasmus (London, 1808), Vol. II. p. 183.[284]For a glimpse of this interesting character, see Tiraboschi, Storia della Letteratura Italiana (Modena, 1787-94), Tom. VI. pp. 384-393; Michaud, Biographie Universelle,nom.Galeotto(Marzio).[285]Liv. III. ch. 29: Œuvres (Amsterdam, 1723), Tom. I. col. 276.[286]Menagiana (Paris, 1715), Tom. I. p. 174.[287]Vol. II. p. 285.[288]Tom. XV. p. 117.[289]History of English Poetry (London, 1824), Vol. I. p. clxvii, note.[290]Tom. II. col. 1470, 5me édit.[291]Vol. I. p. 510.[292]Vol. V. p. 255.[293]Della Storia e della Ragione d’ogni Poesia, Vol. IV. p. 480.[294]Magazin Encyclopédique, Tom. II. p. 52.[295]Histoire Littéraire de la France, Tom. XV. pp. 117, 118.[296]Tom. CCIX.[297]Millin, Magazin Encyclopédique, Tom. III. p. 181. Journal des Savans, Avril, 1760.[298]Ritson’s Bibliographia Poetica, p. 228.[299]For a list of his works, see Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica,nom.Echlin.[300]Beloe’s Anecdotes of Literature, Vol. V. pp. 255-260.[301]Ibid., p. 256.[302]Ibid., p. 257.[303]Millin, Magazin Encyclopédique, Tom. III. p. 181.[304]At the sale of Mr. Steevens’s library in 1800, it appears from a priced Catalogue that this copy brought £2 2s.—Clarke, Repert. Bibliog., p. 546; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares,nom.Galtherus.[305]Repertorium Bibliographicum, p. 244, note.Ante, p. 380.[306]Anecdotes of Literature, Vol. V. p. 258.[307]Tom. III. pp. 324-347.[308]Histoire Littéraire, Tom. XV. p. 100. The article on Gaultier in this famous work was contributed by Ginguené, the well-known author ofHistoire Littéraire d’Italie.[309]Ibid., Tom. XVI. p. 536.[310]The latter mistake is gravely made by Quadrio, in his great jumble of literary history, Tom. IV. p. 480; also by Peerlkamp, De Poetis Latinis Nederlandiarum, p. 15. See also Édélestand du Méril, Poésies Populaires Latines du Moyen Age, p. 149.[311]Alexandreïs, Lib. VII. 339-341.[312]Ibid., Lib. X.ad finem.[313]Graesse, in hisTrésor de Livres Rares, which ought to be accurate, makes a strange mistake in calling Gualterus “Episcopus Insulanus.” He was never more than canon, and held no post at Lille. Fabricius entitles him simply “Magister Philippus Gualterus de Castellione, Insulanus.” (Bib. Lat. Mediæ et Infimæ Ætatis, Tom. III. p. 328.) See also Wright’s Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Preface, p. xviii.[314]It is pleasant to call this magnificent library National.[315]Histoire Littéraire, Tom. XV. p. 101.[316]Édélestand du Méril, Poésies Populaires Latines du Moyen Age, pp. 144-163. Wright, Latin Poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes.[317]Historia Poetarum et Poematum Medii Ævi, pp. 367-763.[318]Histoire Littéraire, Tom. XVI. p. 183.[319]Poésies Populaires Latines du Moyen Age, pp. 149, 150.

[162]Un Nègre et une Négresse, etc.: Causes Célèbres, Tom. XXXVI. pp. 50, 51, 66.

[163]Ibid., pp. 82, 83.

[164]Encyclopédie (Paris, 1751-72), art.Esclavage, Tom. V. p. 939.

[165]De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. XV. ch. 5.

[166]Remarques sur les Pensées de Pascal: Œuvres de Condorcet, par O’Connor et Arago, Tom. III. p. 650.

[167]See,ante, Lecture on Lafayette, Vol. V. pp. 392, 398.

[168]Ibid., p. 398.

[169]“Nam ipsi Belgæ servos non habent, nisi in Asia, Africa, et America.”—Quæstiones Juris Publici, Lib. I. cap. 3.

[170]Voyage de Hollande, 1773: Œuvres de Diderot (Paris, 1821), Tom. XXI. p. 294.

[171]Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. II. pp. 471, 472.

[172]Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, Vol. I. p. 379.

[173]Ibid., History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. III. p. 476, note.

[174]Ibid., History of the Conquest of Mexico, Vol. III. pp. 345, 346.

[175]Soto, De Justitia et Jure, Lib. IV. Quæst. 2, Art. 2.

[176]Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, Sec. 3: Miscellaneous Works (London, 1851), p. 24.

[177]Southey, History of Brazil (London, 1810-19), Vol. II. ch. 26, pp. 476, 479.

[178]Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. I. pp. 163, 172.

[179]Balmés, Protestantism and Catholicity (London, 1849), Note XV. § 7, p. 378.

[180]First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801: Writings, Vol. VIII., p. 4.

[181]See,ante, Vol. VIII. p. 361.

[182]This last requirement was the substance of a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, adopted in the House February 20, 1866, by a vote of 109 Yeas to 40 Nays, and in the Senate March 2d, Yeas 29, Nays 18.

[183]Hon. Alexander H. Rice, a Representative of Boston, being absent from Boston, addressed a letter to the President.

[184]Baconv.Bancroft, 3 Law Reporter, 387. See, also, Leev.Lincoln, 1 Story, R., 610.

[185]This incident is related by Mr. Sumner in his Introduction to the Boston edition of the Nasby Letters, in 1872.

[186]“Ce furent les plus grands intérêts de l’univers décidés par des rencontres de patrouilles.”—Mémoires, publiés par sa Famille, Tom. V. p. 167.

[187]Journal of the Federal Convention, September 12, 1787, p. 368.

[188]Letter, August 1, 1786: Writings, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. pp. 187, 188.

[189]Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858: Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, p. 1.

[190]Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858: Political Debates, p. 2.

[191]Political Debates, p. 75.

[192]Ibid., p. 12.

[193]Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858: Political Debates, pp. 23, 24.

[194]Ibid., pp. 35, 36.

[195]Political Debates, pp. 51, 52.

[196]Political Debates, p. 63.

[197]Ibid., p. 71.

[198]Ibid., p. 83.

[199]Political Debates, p. 116.

[200]Ibid., p. 178.

[201]Political Debates, p. 225.

[202]Crosby’s Life of Lincoln, pp. 32, 33.

[203]Boston Daily Advertiser, April 14, 1859.

[204]Speech before the State Convention of Georgia, January 18, 1861: McPherson’s Political History of the United States during the Great Rebellion (2d edit.), p. 26.

[205]Speech in the Senate of the United States, December 10, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 29.

[206]Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, pp. 154, 155.

[207]Ibid., p. 155.

[208]Ibid.

[209]“Wenn so viel Teufel zu Worms wären als Ziegel auf den Dächern, noch wollt ich hinein!”—Merle D’Aubigné,History of the Reformation, (Glasgow, 1846,) Vol. II. pp. 167, 168, Book VII. ch. 7.

[210]Speech on the Mexican War, January 12, 1848: Congressional Globe, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 156.

[211]Letter to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney: Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, p. 617.

[212]Speech at Montgomery, February 16, 1861: Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 127; art.Confederate States.

[213]Speech at Philadelphia, February 21, 1861: Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, p. 155. See, also, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861: Ibid., p. 165.

[214]Annual Message, December 6, 1864: Executive Documents, H. of R., 38th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 14.

[215]Massinger, The Duke of Milan, Act I. Sc. 3.

[216]Speech intended to be delivered at a Meeting of the Freeholders of Middlesex, September 9, 1780: Memoir, by Lord Teignmouth, (London, 1806,) p. 187.

[217]The Age of Chivalry, by Thomas Bulfinch, p. 84.

[218]Drawn by Mr. Sumner.Ante, Vol. IX. pp. 307-312.

[219]It was sent to Mr. Bright.

[220]Hon. Edward Everett.

[221]Raymond’s Life of Lincoln, pp. 412, 413.

[222]Ibid.

[223]Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 2.

[224]Uhland, The Minstrel’s Return, tr. W. H. Furness: The Dial, p. 412, July, 1860.

[225]Edward the First, called the English Justinian, is also known as Longshanks.

[226]Tiberius Gracchus.—Velleius Paterculus,Historia Romana, Lib. II. c. 2, § 2.

[227]Congressional Globe, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, p. 1042.

[228]Speech in Springfield, July 17, 1858: Political Debates, p. 55.

[229]Letter to General Curtis, January 2, 1863: McPherson’s Political History of the United States during the Rebellion (2d edit.), Appendix, p. 534.

[230]July 18, 1864. McPherson’s Political History of the United States during the Rebellion (2d edit.), p. 301.

[231]Letter to the Union Convention in Illinois, August 26, 1863: Ibid., p. 335.

[232]Fourth Annual Message, Dec. 6, 1864.

[233]Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

[234]Bacon, Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain: Works, ed. Spedding, (London, 1857-59,) Vol. VII. p. 47.

[235]Suetonius, Vespasianus, Cap. XIV.

[236]Dante died at this age; also Pliny the philosopher, Pope the poet, Gibbon the historian; and at this age Charles the Fifth resigned his empire and withdrew to a monastery.

[237]Letter to Henry Dundas, April 9, 1792: Works (London, 1801-27), Vol. IX. p. 281.

[238]Isaiah, xiii. 11, 12.

[239]Oliver Wendell Holmes.

[240]Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham.

[241]At this stage of his speech Mr. Sumner called attention to M. Kapnist, a Russian gentleman belonging to the Chancery of the Emperor, who was on the platform. The allusion was received by the Convention with applause, which M. Kapnist acknowledged by rising and bowing.

[242]Rev. Ichabod Wiswall to Gov. Thomas Hinckley, of Plymouth, November 5, 1691: Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, Vol. I. p. 413; Hinckley Papers, Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 4th Ser. Vol. V. p. 301.

[243]Moniteur, May 21, 1850, p. 1761.

[244]Acts of July 2, 1862, and January 24, 1865: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502; Vol. XIII. p. 424.

[245]Address at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.

[246]William Lloyd Garrison was in the habit of calling it “a covenant with Death and a league with Hell.”

[247]Lincoln and Johnson, their Plan of Reconstruction and the Resumption of National Authority; First Paper: Hartford Daily Times, March 19, 1872.

[248]Mr. Davis’s brilliant life was closed by an early death, December 30, 1865, which deprived the country of his inestimable services in Reconstruction. Seepost, Vol. XIII. p. 104.

[249]Ante, Vol. X. p. 167.

[250]Ante, Vol. XI. p. 351.

[251]Ante, p. 179.

[252]Ante, p. 349.

[253]Thirty-seventh Cong. 1st Sess., July 19, 1861: House Journal, p. 117; Cong. Globe, p. 210.

[254]Thirty-eighth Cong. 1st Sess., May 4, 1864: Senate Journal, p. 401; Cong. Globe, p. 2087. See,ante, Vol. IX. pp. 169-175, Speech on the Constitutional Quorum of the Senate.

[255]Vol. I. § 776, note.

[256]Ante, pp. 307, 308.

[257]Æneïs, Lib. III. 420, 421.

[258]Seneca, Hercules Œtæus, 235, 236.

[259]Odyssey, tr. Pope, Book XII. 129-132.

[260]Ibid., 107-114.

[261]Ibid., 52-56.

[262]In Joannis Evangelium Tract. XXXVI. § 9.

[263]Comus, 257-259.

[264]Book II. 659-661.

[265]Book II. 1016-1020.

[266]Merchant of Venice, Act III. Sc. 5.

[267]“Mais le malheur de la dame fut que, tumbant de Scylle en Carybde,” etc.—Vies des Dames Illustres, Discours VI. art. 2: Œuvres (Paris, 1822-23), Tom. V. p. 201.

[268]La Vieille et les Deux Servantes: Fables, Liv. V. 6.

[269]Liberty, Part IV. 1075, 1076.

[270]Argument in the Rhode Island Case, January 27, 1848: Works, Vol. VI. p. 242.

[271]“Quæ Charybdis tam vorax? Charybdin dico? quæ, si fuit, fuit animal unum.”—Philippica II.c. 27. See, also, In Verrem Act. II. Lib. V. c. 56; De Oratore, Lib. III. c. 41.

[272]Adagia, Chil. I. Cent. V. Prov. 4: Opera (Lugd. Batav., 1703), Tom. II. col. 184.

[273]Ibid., col. 183.

[274]Cent. XVI. Prov. 49: Leutsch, Parœmiographi Græci (Gottingæ, 1851), Tom. II. p. 672.

[275]Adagia, Chil. I. Cent. V. Prov. 5: Opera, Tom. II. col. 184.

[276]Ibid., Lucian, Necyomant., 4.

[277]Satiræ, I. ii. 24, 27.

[278]Adagia, Chil. I. Cent. V. Prov. 3: Opera, Tom. II. col. 182. Terent., Phormio, 767.

[279]Epist. MCCLXI., Joanni Vergaræ, Nov. 19, 1533: Opera, Tom. III. col. 1483.

[280]Epist. DLXXIV., Gulielmo Waramo, Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, Maii 24, 1521: Ibid., col. 645.

[281]Epist. XIII., Joanni Sixtino Frisio, Oxoniæ, Oct. 28, 1497: Ibid., col. 11.

[282]Epist. CLXV., Rogerio Wentfordo, 1514: Ibid., col. 141.

[283]Jortin’s Life of Erasmus (London, 1808), Vol. II. p. 183.

[284]For a glimpse of this interesting character, see Tiraboschi, Storia della Letteratura Italiana (Modena, 1787-94), Tom. VI. pp. 384-393; Michaud, Biographie Universelle,nom.Galeotto(Marzio).

[285]Liv. III. ch. 29: Œuvres (Amsterdam, 1723), Tom. I. col. 276.

[286]Menagiana (Paris, 1715), Tom. I. p. 174.

[287]Vol. II. p. 285.

[288]Tom. XV. p. 117.

[289]History of English Poetry (London, 1824), Vol. I. p. clxvii, note.

[290]Tom. II. col. 1470, 5me édit.

[291]Vol. I. p. 510.

[292]Vol. V. p. 255.

[293]Della Storia e della Ragione d’ogni Poesia, Vol. IV. p. 480.

[294]Magazin Encyclopédique, Tom. II. p. 52.

[295]Histoire Littéraire de la France, Tom. XV. pp. 117, 118.

[296]Tom. CCIX.

[297]Millin, Magazin Encyclopédique, Tom. III. p. 181. Journal des Savans, Avril, 1760.

[298]Ritson’s Bibliographia Poetica, p. 228.

[299]For a list of his works, see Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica,nom.Echlin.

[300]Beloe’s Anecdotes of Literature, Vol. V. pp. 255-260.

[301]Ibid., p. 256.

[302]Ibid., p. 257.

[303]Millin, Magazin Encyclopédique, Tom. III. p. 181.

[304]At the sale of Mr. Steevens’s library in 1800, it appears from a priced Catalogue that this copy brought £2 2s.—Clarke, Repert. Bibliog., p. 546; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares,nom.Galtherus.

[305]Repertorium Bibliographicum, p. 244, note.Ante, p. 380.

[306]Anecdotes of Literature, Vol. V. p. 258.

[307]Tom. III. pp. 324-347.

[308]Histoire Littéraire, Tom. XV. p. 100. The article on Gaultier in this famous work was contributed by Ginguené, the well-known author ofHistoire Littéraire d’Italie.

[309]Ibid., Tom. XVI. p. 536.

[310]The latter mistake is gravely made by Quadrio, in his great jumble of literary history, Tom. IV. p. 480; also by Peerlkamp, De Poetis Latinis Nederlandiarum, p. 15. See also Édélestand du Méril, Poésies Populaires Latines du Moyen Age, p. 149.

[311]Alexandreïs, Lib. VII. 339-341.

[312]Ibid., Lib. X.ad finem.

[313]Graesse, in hisTrésor de Livres Rares, which ought to be accurate, makes a strange mistake in calling Gualterus “Episcopus Insulanus.” He was never more than canon, and held no post at Lille. Fabricius entitles him simply “Magister Philippus Gualterus de Castellione, Insulanus.” (Bib. Lat. Mediæ et Infimæ Ætatis, Tom. III. p. 328.) See also Wright’s Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Preface, p. xviii.

[314]It is pleasant to call this magnificent library National.

[315]Histoire Littéraire, Tom. XV. p. 101.

[316]Édélestand du Méril, Poésies Populaires Latines du Moyen Age, pp. 144-163. Wright, Latin Poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes.

[317]Historia Poetarum et Poematum Medii Ævi, pp. 367-763.

[318]Histoire Littéraire, Tom. XVI. p. 183.

[319]Poésies Populaires Latines du Moyen Age, pp. 149, 150.

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