[11] White Anxur’s salutary waters roll.
[12] Why, Madam, you have hit on it sure enough.
[13] Surge, et ego ipse homo sum. VULGATE.
[14] This hiding-hole received Nero after his golden house.
[15]
Our Alexander sells keys, altars, heaven;
When law and right are sold, he’ll buy:--that’s even.
[16] Juno too has her thunder.
[17] Here’s something at last that’s truly great however! why this
Alexander looks fit to be king of France.
[18] _Paglia_ is a straw-coloured marble, wonderfully beautiful, and
extremely rare; found only in some northern tracts of Africa, I am told
here.
[19] What you are already, that desire to be for ever.
[20] Girt with the limus, and as to their temples, _they_ were crowned
with vervain.
[21] That’s the name of the spring.
[22] There was an old religious temple hard by, where Clitumnus himself
was venerated with suitable dress and ornaments.
[23] Nightly lamenting, &c.
[24] The colony of Ancona, founded by Sicilians.
[25]
The beauteous gulph which fair Ancona laves,
Ancona wash’d by white Dalmatian waves.
[26] I am a light-fingered fellow, Master.
[27] We are all sinners you know.
[28] The best among the Cæsars.
[29] Mayst thou be happier than Augustus!--better than Trajan!
[30] Eating increases one’s appetite.
[31]
Though fat Bologna feeds to the fill,
Our Padua is fatter still.
[32]
Pompous and holy ancient Rome we call,
Venice rich, wise, and lordly over all.
[33] Truth alone is pleasing.
[34]
Wilt thou have music? hark, Apollo plays,
And twenty _caged_ nightingales shall sing.