Note 60.Page 214.
The introduction of Alexander the Great, Socrates, and a Roman emperor, is a strange jumble of times and persons.
Note 61.Page 223.
"Beware that you lose not the Thread."
A fine moral, which might be oftener remembered with advantage. The Gospel is to the Christian, what the ball of thread was to the knight: pity that it should so frequently be lost!
Note 62.Page 224.
"Here seems to be an allusion to Medea's history."—Warton. It is surely more analogous to the story of the Minotaur, and the clue furnished by Adriadne to her lover. Warton should have explained the resemblance he has fancied.
Note 63.Page 234.
"My friend, let us go through the world as other knights are wont to do."
"Sicut cæteri milites." Here we discover those features of chivalry, so admirably ridiculed by Cer-
