NOTES
P. 3: At first this discourse was the last; it is outlined in the manuscript 608 as follows: "Discourse on why beautiful and faithful women love valiant men, and why worthy men love courageous women."
P. 4: Virgil, in his Æneid (Bk. I), makes Penthesileia appear only after Hector's death. For these accounts on the Amazons, consult Traité historique sur les Amazones, by Pierre Petit, Leyde, 1718.
P. 5: See Boccaccio, De Claris Mulieribus.
P. 6: Æneid, IV., 10-13.
P. 8: A Latin work of Boccaccio in nine books.
P. 8: Bk. IX., Chap. 3.
P. 9: Nouvelle, 1554-1574.
P. 9: Bandello, t. III., p. 1 (Venice, 1558).
P. 11: The Duc d'Anjou, afterwards Henri III. of France, is meant. He was the third son of Henri II. and Catherine de Medici, and was born at Fontainebleau 1551. On the death of his brother Charles IX. in 1574 he succeeded to the throne. Died 1589. The victories referred to are those of Jarnac and Montcontour.
P. 12: Ronsard, Œuvres, liv. 1, 174th sonnet.
P. 13: "Petit-Lit" is Leith,—the port of Edinburgh, on the Firth of Forth. The English army under Lord Grey of Wilton invaded Scotland in 1560, and laid siege to Leith, then occupied by the French. The place was stubbornly defended, but must soon have fallen, when envoys were sent by Francis II. from France to conclude a peace. These were Monluc, Bishop of Valence, and the
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