teaquam in Liguriam venit, multis agris coemptis, tabernam paternam, manente forma priore, infinitis ædificiis circundedit. Hift. Auguft. 54.

An attachment of this nature is generally the characteristic of a benevolent mind; and a long ac quaintance with the world cannot always extinguish it.

To a friend, fays John Duke of Buckingham, I will expofe my weakness: I am oftener miffing a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down, than pleased with a faloon which I built in its ftead, though a thousand times better in all refpects. See his Letter to the D. of Sh.

This is the language of the heart; and will remind the reader of that good-humoured remark in one of Pope's letters-I should hardly care to have

an old post pulled up, that I remembered ever POPE's Works, viii. 151.

fince I was a child.

The elegant author of Telemachus has illuftrated

this fubject, with equal fancy and feeling, in the ftory of Alibée, Perfan. See Recueil de Fables, compofées pour l'Education d'un Prince.

Why great NAVARRE, &c.

That amiable and accomplished monarch, Henry the Fourth of France, made an excurfion from his camp, during the long fiege of Laon, to dine at a house in the foreft of Folambray; where he had often been regaled, when a boy, with fruit, milk, and new cheese; and in revifiting which he promised himself great pleasure.

Memoires de SULLY, tom. ii. p. 381.

NOTE 12. Verse 277.

When DIOCLETIAN's self-corrected mind—

Diocletian retired into his native province, and there amused himself with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. He was folicited by that restlefs old man to re-affume the reins of government, and the Imperial purple. He rejected the temptation with a fmile of pity, "calmly obferving, that if he could fhew Maximian the cabbages which he had planted with his own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power.

GIBBON, ii. 175.

Say, when ambitious CHARLES renounc'd a throne

When the emperor Charles V. had executed his memorable refolution, and had fet out for the monaftery of St. Juftus, he stopped a few days at Ghent, fays his hiftorian, to indulge that tender and pleafant melancholy, which arifes in the mind of every man in the decline of life, on vifiting the place of his nativity, and viewing the fcenes and objects familiar to him in his early ROBERTSON'S Hift. iv. 256.

youth.

NOTE 14. Verfe 305.

Then did his horse the homeward track descry.

The memory of the horse forms the ground

work of a pleafing little romance of the twelfth

century, entitled "The Gray Palfrey." See the

Tales of the Trouveurs, as collected by M. Le Grand.

Ariofto likewise introduces it in a paffage full of truth and nature. When Bayardo meets Angelica in the foreft,

-Va manfueto a la Donzella,

Ch' in Albracca il fervìa già di fua mano.

ORLANDO FURIOSO, canto i. 75.

NOTE

15.

Verse 333.

Sweet bird! thy truth fball HARLEM's walls atteft.

During the fiege of Harlem, when that city was reduced to the laft extremity, and on the point of