of Ahasuerus. "Hence also Chaucer's allusion at the marriage of January and May, while they are at the solemnity of the wedding dinner, which is very splendid.
'Queen Esther looked ne'er with such an eye
On Assuere, so meek a look hath she[1].'"
Note 122.Page 390.
"Cesarius, I suppose, is a Cistercian monk of the thirteenth century; who besides voluminous lives, chronicles, and homilies, wrote twelve books on the miracles, visions, and examples of his own age. But there is another and an older monkish writer of the same name. In the British Museum, there is a narrative taken from Cesarius, in old northern English, of a lady deceived by fiends, or the devil, thro' the pride of rich clothing."—Warton.
Note 123.Page 392.
"This is the sentiment of the historian Sallust, in the opening of the Jugurthine war.
- ↑ March. Tale, v. 1260.—Elm.
