NOTES TO CANTO SIXTH.
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epithet would not have suited poetry, and would besides at once, and prematurely, have announced the plot to many of my countrymen, among whom the traditional stories above mentioned are still current.
FINIS.
The Author has to apologize for the inadvertent appropriation of a whole line from the tragedy of Douglas,
"I hold the first who strikes, my foe."
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