• The Fables of Aesop , by Sir Roger L’Estrange, IV :⁠— “There fell out a bloody quarrel once betwixt the Frogs and the Mice, about the sovereignty of the Fenns; and whilst two of their champions were disputing it at swords point, down comes a kite powdering upon them in the interim, and gobbles up both together, to part the fray.” ↩
• Both words signifying “now”; mo , from the Latin modo ; and issa , from the Latin ipsa ; meaning ipsa hora . “The Tuscans say mo ,” remarks Benvenuto, “the Lombards issa .” ↩
• “When he is in a fright and hurry, and has a very steep place to go down, Virgil has to carry him altogether,” says Mr. Ruskin. See note 160 . ↩
• Benvenuto speaks of the cloaks of the German monks as “ill-fitting and shapeless.” ↩