(1) The Convent of La Rábida.

(2) See Bernal Diaz, c. 203; and also a well-known portrait of Cortes, ascribed to Titian. Cortes was now in the forty-third, Pizarro in the fiftieth year of his age.

(3) Augustin Zarate, lib. iv. c. 9.

(4) An interpolation.

(5) Late Superior of the House.

(6) In the chancel of the cathedral of St. Domingo.

An anachronism. The body of Columbus was not yet removed from Seville.

It is almost unnecessary to point out another in the Ninth Canto. The telescope was not then in use; though described long before, with great accuracy, by Roger Bacon.

(7) The words of the epitaph. "A Castilia y a Leon nuevo Mundo dio Colon."

(8) Mexico.

(9) Afterwards the arms of Cortes and his descendants.

(10) Fernandez, lib. ii. c. 63.

(11) B. Diaz, c. 203.

(12) "After the death of Guatimotzin," says B. Diaz, "he became gloomy and restless; rising continually from his bed, and wandering about in the dark." 66 Nothing prospered with him; and it was ascribed to the curses he was loaded with."

JACQUELINE.

1813.

JACQUELINE.

I.

'T WAS Autumn; through Provence had ceased The vintage, and the vintage-feast.

The sun had set behind the hill,

The moon was up, and all was still,

And from the convent's neighboring tower
The clock had tolled the midnight-hour,
When Jacqueline came forth alone,
Her kerchief o'er her tresses thrown;
A guilty thing and full of fears,
Yet, ah! how lovely in her tears!

She starts, and what has caught her eye?

What but her shadow gliding by?

She stops, she pants; with lips apart
She listens to her beating heart!

Then, through the scanty orchard stealing,
The clustering boughs her track concealing,
She flies, nor casts a thought behind,
But gives her terrors to the wind;
Flies from her home, the humble sphere
Of all her joys and sorrows here,
Her father's house of mountain-stone,
And by a mountain-vine o'ergrown.