him, he deserved his death."


_Remember St. Bartholomew_, i.e., the massacre of the Protestants on St.
Bartholomew's day, 1572.


_Maidens of Vienna: matrons of Lucerne_. In reference to the Austrian
and Swiss Allies of the League.


_Thy Mexican pistoles_. Alluding to the riches gained by the Spanish
monarchy from her American colonies.


_Ho! burghers of St. Genevieve_ = citizens of Paris, of which St.
Genevieve was held to be the patron saint.]




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NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

And now I began to apply myself to make such necessary things as I found
I most wanted, as particularly a chair or a table; for without these I