[Footnote 12: It will be remembered that Lanier was a careful student of Shakespeare, on whom he lectured to private classes in Baltimore.]
[Footnote 13: See second part of _King Henry IV_, iii. I. The passage which the poet had in mind begins:--
"How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep!"]
[Footnote 14: See _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_.]
[Footnote 15: These characters are found as follows: Viola in _Twelfth Night_; Julia in _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_; Portia in _The Merchant of Venice_; and Rosalind in _As You Like It_.]
[Footnote 16: Referring to the well-known catalogue of ships in the Second Book of the Illiad:--
"My song to fame shall give The chieftains, and enumerate their ships."
It is in this passage in particular that Homer is supposed to nod.]
[Footnote 17: It will be recalled that Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy, persuaded Helen, the fairest of women and wife of King Menelaus of Greece, to elope with him to Troy. This incident gave rise to the famous Trojan War.]
[Footnote 18: Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was an Athenian philosopher, of whom Cicero said that he "brought down philosophy from the heavens to the earth." His teachings are preserved in Xenophon's _Memorabilia_ and Plato's _Dialogues_.]
[Footnote 19: That is to say, his needless austerity was as much affected as the dandy's excessive and ostentatious refinement.]
[Footnote 20: Buddha, meaning _the enlightened one_, was Prince Siddhartha of Hindustan, who died about 477 B.C. He was the founder of the Buddhist religion, which teaches that the supreme attainment of mankind is Nirvana or extinction. This doctrine naturally follows from the Buddhist assumption that life is hopelessly evil. Many of the moral precepts of Buddhism are closely akin to those of Christianity.]
[Footnote 21: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), a native of Florence, is the greatest poet of Italy and one of the greatest poets of the world. His immortal poem, _The Divine Comedy_, is divided into three parts --"Hell," "Purgatory," and "Paradise."]
[Footnote 22: This is a reference to the wars among the angels, which ended with the expulsion of Satan and his hosts from heaven, as related in the sixth book of Paradise Lost. This criticism of Milton is as just as it is felicitous.]