• Spenser, Faery Queene , VI c. 7, st. 22:⁠— “He, therewith much abashed and affrayd, Began to tremble every limbe and vaine.” ↩
• A prophecy of Dante’s banishment and poverty and humiliation. ↩
• In the first part of this canto the same subject is continued, with examples of pride humbled, sculptured on the pavement, upon which the Proud are doomed to gaze as they go with their heads bent down beneath their heavy burdens, “So that they may behold their evil ways.” Iliad , XIII 700:⁠— “And Ajax, the swift son of Oileus, never at all stood apart from the Telamonian Ajax; but as in a fallow field two dark bullocks, possessed of equal spirit, drag the compacted plough, and much sweat breaks out about the roots of their horns, and the well-polished yoke alone divides them, stepping along the furrow, and the plough cuts up the bottom of the soil, so they, joined together, stood very near to each other.” ↩
• In Italy a pedagogue is not only a teacher, but literally a leader of children, and goes from house to house collecting his little flock, which he brings home again after school. Galatians 3:24:⁠— “The law was our schoolmaster (Paidagogos) to bring us unto Christ.” ↩