_Why great NAVARRE, &c_.

That amiable and accomplished monarch, Henry the Fourth of France,
made an excursion from his camp, during the long siege of Laon, to
dine at a house in the forest of Folambray; where he had often been
regaled, when a boy, with fruit, milk, and new cheese; and in
revisiting which he promised himself great pleasure.
Mém. de SULLY, ii. 381.

NOTE q.

_When DIOCLETIAN'S self-corrected mind_

Diocletian retired into his native province, and there amused himself
with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is
deservedly celebrated. He was solicited by that restless old man to
re-assume the reins of government, and the Imperial purple. He
rejected the temptation with a smile of pity, calmly observing, "that
if he could shew Maximian the cabbages which he had planted with his
own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish the
enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power."
GIBBON, ii. 175.

NOTE r.

_Say, when contentious CHARLES renounc'd a throne_,

When the emperor Charles V. had executed his memorable resolution,
and had set out for the monastery of St. Justus, he stopped a few
days at Ghent, says his historian, to indulge that tender and