pleasant melancholy, which arises in the mind of every man in the
decline of life, on visiting the place of his nativity, and viewing
the scenes and objects familiar to him in his early youth.
ROBERTSON, iv. 256.

NOTE s.

_Then did his horse the homeward track descry_.

The memory of the horse forms the ground-work of a pleasing little
romance of the twelfth century, entitled, "Lai du Palefroi vair."
See Fabliaux du XII Siecle.

Ariosto likewise introduces it in a passage full of truth and nature.
When Bayardo meets Angelica in the forest,
........Va mansueto a la Donzella,
..................................
Ch'in Albracca il servìa già di sua mano.
ORLANDO FURIOSO, canto i. 75.

NOTE t.

_Sweet bird! thy truth shall HARLEM'S walls attest_.

During the siege of Harlem, when that city was reduced to the last
extremity, and on the point of opening its gates to a base and
barbarous enemy, a design was formed to relieve it; and the
intelligence was conveyed to the citizens by a letter which was tied
under the wing of a pigeon.
THUANUS, lib. lv, c. 5.