mortal blow) to this, is beautiful; and the delicate proceeding of
Orlando in leaving Agrican's body armed, even with the sword in his hand,
is in the noblest spirit of chivalry."--Edition of _Boiardo and Ariosto_,
vol. iii. page 357.

The reader will find the original in the Appendix No. I.

In the course of the poem (canto xix. stanza xxvi.) a knight, with the
same noble delicacy, who is in distress for a set of arms, borrows those
belonging to the dead body, with many excuses, and a kiss on its face.


[Footnote 1:

"Che tutti insieme, e 'l suo Rè Galafrone,
Non li stimava quanto un vil bottone."]

[Footnote 2: Berni has here introduced the touching words, "Would I were
not so!" (Così non foss'io!)]

[Footnote 3: This proposal is in the highest ingenuous spirit of the
absurd wilfulness of passion, thinking that every thing is to give way
before it, not excepting the same identical wishes in other people.]

[Footnote 4: Very fine all this, I think.]


THE SARACEN FRIENDS.

A FAIRY LOVE-TALE