Who can sufficiently admire the affectionate attachment of Plutarch,
who thus concludes his enumeration of the advantages of a great city
to men of letters; "As to myself, I live in a little town; and I
choose to live there, lest it should become still less,"--Vit. Dem.

NOTE h.

_For this young FOSCARI, &c_.

He was suspected of murder, and at Venice suspicion is good evidence.
Neither the interest of the Doge, his father, nor the intrepidity of
conscious innocence, which he exhibited in the dungeon and on the
rack, could procure his acquittal. He was banished to the island of
Candia for life.

But here his resolution failed him. At such a distance from home he
could not live; and, as it was a criminal offence to solicit the
intercession of any foreign prince, in a fit of despair he addressed
a letter to the Duke of Milan, and intrusted it to a wretch whose
perfidy, he knew, would occasion his being remanded a prisoner to
Venice.

NOTE i.

_And watch and weep in ELOISA'S cell_.

The Paraclete, founded by Abelard, in Champagne.

NOTE k.