FOOTNOTES[1]To this story, in the book from which I have quoted it, is subjoined the following reference:—“Mémoires Historiques, 1687, tom. i. p. 365.” Being desirous of giving my extract from the oldest authority, I caused the British Museum, and the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, to be searched for this publication, but in vain. The story and the reference are, not improbably, both of them the fictions of the English writer.[2]Johnson’s Occasional Prologue on Garrick’s assuming the management of Drury-lane Theatre.[3]Charles V.[4]Henry VIII.[5]Antonio de Leyva.[6]The constable of Bourbon.[7]Mistresses of Francis I.[8]The battle of Cerisolles.[9]This incident is told, nearly in the words of St. Leon, by Thuanus,Historiæ Sui Temporis,lib.2.cap.14.
[1]To this story, in the book from which I have quoted it, is subjoined the following reference:—“Mémoires Historiques, 1687, tom. i. p. 365.” Being desirous of giving my extract from the oldest authority, I caused the British Museum, and the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, to be searched for this publication, but in vain. The story and the reference are, not improbably, both of them the fictions of the English writer.
[1]To this story, in the book from which I have quoted it, is subjoined the following reference:—“Mémoires Historiques, 1687, tom. i. p. 365.” Being desirous of giving my extract from the oldest authority, I caused the British Museum, and the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, to be searched for this publication, but in vain. The story and the reference are, not improbably, both of them the fictions of the English writer.
[2]Johnson’s Occasional Prologue on Garrick’s assuming the management of Drury-lane Theatre.
[2]Johnson’s Occasional Prologue on Garrick’s assuming the management of Drury-lane Theatre.
[3]Charles V.
[3]Charles V.
[4]Henry VIII.
[4]Henry VIII.
[5]Antonio de Leyva.
[5]Antonio de Leyva.
[6]The constable of Bourbon.
[6]The constable of Bourbon.
[7]Mistresses of Francis I.
[7]Mistresses of Francis I.
[8]The battle of Cerisolles.
[8]The battle of Cerisolles.
[9]This incident is told, nearly in the words of St. Leon, by Thuanus,Historiæ Sui Temporis,lib.2.cap.14.
[9]This incident is told, nearly in the words of St. Leon, by Thuanus,Historiæ Sui Temporis,lib.2.cap.14.
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