FOOTNOTES:

[1] The poem from which this stanza is taken has now become so scarce, and is so pleasing, that we are induced to insert it in this note:

TO THE IDOL OF MINE EYES AND THE DELIGHT OF MINE HEART,
ANNE HATHAWAY.

Would ye be taught, ye feathered throng,
With love’s sweet notes to grace your song,
To pierce the heart with thrilling lay,
Listen to mine Anne Hathaway!
She hath a way to sing so clear,
Phœbus might wond’ring stop to hear;
To melt the sad, make blithe the gay,
And nature charm, Anne hath a way:
She hath a way,
Anne Hathaway,
To breathe delight Anne hath a way.
When envy’s breath and rancorous tooth
Do soil and bite fair worth and truth,
And merit to distress betray,
To soothe the heart Anne hath a way;
She hath a way to chase despair,
To heal all grief, to cure all care,
Turn foulest night to fairest day:
Thou know’st, fond heart, Anne hath a way,
She hath a way,
Anne Hathaway,
To make grief bliss Anne hath a way.
Talk not of gems, the orient list,
The diamond, topaz, amethyst,
The emerald mild, the ruby gay:
Talk of my gem, Anne Hathaway!
She hath a way, with her bright eye,
Their various lustre to defy,
The jewel she and the foil they,
So sweet to look Anne hath a way.
She hath a way,
Anne Hathaway,
To shame bright gems, Anne hath a way.
But were it to my fancy given
To rate her charms, I’d call them Heaven;
For though a mortal made of clay,
Angels must love Anne Hathaway.
She hath a way so to control
To rapture the imprisoned soul,
And sweetest Heaven on earth display,
That to be Heaven Anne hath a way!
She hath a way,
Anne Hathaway,
To be Heaven’s self Anne hath a way.

[2] Chambers’s Miscellany, vol. xv., No. 132.

[3] Layard’s Nineveh, ii. 318.

[4] Papers read before the Irish Academy, 1836.

[5] Babylon and Nineveh, 513.

[6] Pliny, lib. ix.; Pausanias in Attic. Poet., c. vi.; Ovid. Fast., 1. v. Bannier, ii. 497.

[7] Lib. i. c. 1.

[8] Plin. lib. xiii.; Montfaucon.

[9] Book of Costume, by a Lady of Rank, 21.

[10] Archæologia Biblica.

[11] P. 246.

[12] Fuss’s Roman Antiquities.

[13] Pictorial Bible, (Knight’s Ed.,) Note to 1 Kings, ch. xxi.

[14] Curiosities of Burial, (Chambers’s Repository.)

[15] Dagley’s Gems, Preface.

[16] Hottzappfel’s Turning and Mechanical Manipulations, p. 1362.

[17] Chambers’s Repository, (Curiosities of Burial.)

[18] Gemma Antiche, iii. 182.

[19] Genesis, ch. xli. et seq.

[20] Goldsmith.

[21] Caylus, vol. iii. p. 157.

[22] And see Layard’s Nineveh, 339, 340.

[23] Montfaucon.

[24] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xx., N. S., 55.

[25] Fuss’s Roman Antiquities, sec. 435.

[26] Juvenal, Sat. VII.

[27] Adams’s Roman Antiquities, 366, (Boyd’s edit.)

[28] Montfaucon.

[29] Plutarch’s Numa.

[30] Fuss, § 318.

[31] Fosbroke, 247; Fuss, § 150.

[32] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xviii., N. S., 527.

[33] 4. vol. i. pl. lxxxix.

[34] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, 247.

[35] Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s; and Archæologla, xvii. 316.

[36] Eccleston’s Introduction to English Antiquities, 60,61; and see Manufactures of Metal, 376; Hone’s Every-Day Book, 671; Archæologia, iv. 54.

[37] Ingoldsby Legends, 223.

[38] Fosbroke, 251.

[39] Montfaucon.

[40] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, 246.

[41] Wilkinson’s Manners of the Ancient Egyptians, 371.

[42] Rees’s Encyclopædia—Title, Rings.

[43] Lib. i. i. cap. 5.

[44] Life of Caius Marius.

[45] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, 246.

[46] Wilson’s Archæological Dictionary, Art. Rings.

[47] Chambers’s Miscellany.

[48] Cardanus, lib. vii. de Lapidibus.

[49] Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes—The Borgias.

[50] Notes to Tallis’s Edit. of Shakspeare.

[51] Act IV. Scene 2.

[52] Nichols’s Lapidary, 54, 57; Kobell, 274.

[53] Hill’s Theophrastus, p. 75, notes n. y.

[54] Chances, Act 1, Sc. 3.

[55] Collins’s Peerage.

[56] Harris’s Rudimentary Magnetism, 6.

[57] Recueil d’Antiquités.

[58] Remarks on Italy.

[59] Curiosities of Burial—Chambers’s Repository.

[60] Recueil d’Antiquités, Tom. ii. p. 310.

[61] Lib. iv., p. 172, Pl. LVII.

[62] Lib. v. p. 161.

[63] Caylus, ii. 311.

[64] Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. xviii., N. S., 527.

[65] Archæologia, v. 71.

[66] Ib. viii. 430.

[67] Heb. xi. 37, 38.

[68] Fosbroke, 247; Archæologia, iv. 54.

[69] Vol. iv. N. S., p. 224.

[70] (Published by Redfield,) p. 110.

[71] Lond. Gent.’s Mag., Vol. xxiv. p. 285.

[72] Archæologia, (London,) ii. 35.

[73] Memorials of Affairs of State, iii. 368.

[74] Nugæ Antiquæ, ii. 263.

[75] Jer, xxii. 24.

[76] Moutfaucon.

[77] Lib. x.

[78] Martial, Lib. xi., epiq. 60.

[79] Aristophanes, in Nub., &c.

[80] Wilkinson.

[81] P. 185, Edit. of 1646.

[82] P. 185.

[83] Chap. ii., v. 2.

[84] Archæologia Biblica, § 128-9; Wilkinson.

[85] Godolphin’s Orphan’s Leg., 413.

[86] Williams on Executors, 739.

[87] Apreece v. Apreece, 1 V. and B. 364.

[88] Vowles v. Young, 13 Ves. J. 144.

[89] Montfaucon.

[90] London, for 1760, p. 243.

[91] Roscoe’s Leo X., i. 338, (8vo.)

[92] Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Pompeii, vol. ii. p. 324.

[93] And see Layard’s Nineveh and Babylon, (Putnam’s Edit.,) 529.

[94] Vol. i. p. 345, 4to.

[95] Adam’s Roman Antiquities, 366, (Boyd’s edit.)

[96] Household Words, ix. 462.

[97] Family Friend, vol. ii. p. 132.

[98] Furnished to the author through the attention of Messrs. Marchand Aé. Gaime, Guillemot & Co., Jewellers, of New-York.

[99] Mineral Kingdom, p. 269.

[100] New-York Albion newspaper, 8th October, 1853.

[101] When the tomb of Childeric, father of Clovis, was opened, there were found, besides the skeletons of his horse and page, his arms, a crystal orb and more than three hundred little ornaments resembling bees of the purest gold, their wing part being inlaid with a red stone like cornelian. It has, however, been asserted that they were what are called fleurons, supposed to have been attached to the harness of the monarch’s war-horse. Napoleon, wishing to have some regal emblem more ancient than the fleur-de-lis, adopted the fleurons or bees, and the green ground as the original Merovingian color, (Notes and Queries, viii. 30.)

[102] London Gent.’s Mag. for January, 1765, p. 210.

[103] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xxxv. old series, p. 141.

[104] Article in the N. Y. Albion for 31st Dec. 1853, on Cod and Cod Fishing, 627.

[105] Lady Morgan’s Italy, vol. ii. p. 419.

[106] Correspondence, vol. iii. p. 107.

[107] Genesis, chap. lxi. et seq.

[108] 1 Mac. vi. 15.

[109] Encyc. Brit., Article Ring.

[110] Chap. viii. 8.

[111] Daniel vi. 17.

[112] Egypt under the Ptolemies, by Sharp, 118.

[113] Lib. ii. Sat. 7.

[114] Notes and Queries, iv. 261.

[115] An Historical and Critical Enquiry into the nature of the Kingly Offices, etc., by T. C. Banks, p. 7. See also a complete account of the Ceremonies observed in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, 4th edition, published by J. Roberts. Also, the entire Ceremonies of the Coronation of King Charles II., and of Queen Mary, consort of James II., as published by the Learned Heralds, Ashmole and Sandford.

[116] Archæologia, (London,) iii. 390.

[117] Biographia Britannica, Art. Devereux.

[118] Archæologia, vol. xxvi. (London.) Account of the Jerusalem Chamber, by A. J. Kempe, Esquire.

[119] Ib. vol. xxix. pl. 2. Particulars of the Regalia of England, made for the Coronation of Charles II., by Robert Cole, Esquire.

[120] Archæologia, iii. 390.

[121] Ib. 385.

[122] Correspondence, vol. vi. p. 67.

[123] Archæologia, iii. 392.

[124] Ib. 389.

[125] King Henry VIII., Act 5, Scenes 1, 2.

[126] See also Antiquitat. Britannicæ, 334, 336; Burnet, 327, et seq.

[127] Encyc. Am., Art. Venice. And see Scott’s Discovery of Witchcraft (1665,) p. 152.

[128] In the Gentleman’s Magazine for March, 1798, p. 184, is a minute account of this ceremony, which somewhat varies from the above: “On Ascension Day, the Doge, in a splendid barge, attended by a thousand barks and gondolas, proceeds to a particular place in the Adriatic. In order to compose the angry gulf and procure a calm, the patriarch pours into her bosom a quantity of holy water. As soon as this charm has had its effect, the Doge, with great solemnity, through an aperture near his seat, drops into her lap a gold ring, repeating these words, ‘Desponsamus te, Mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii.’ ‘We espouse thee, O sea! in token of real and perpetual dominion over thee.’”

[129] Dictionary of Dates, Adriatic.

[130] See Smedley’s Sketches of Venetian History, referred to in note [A] to Byron’s Works.

[131] He is under obligations to the Reverend Thomas S. Preston for this.

[132] Gavazzi’s Lectures, (New-York ed.,) 185.

[133] London Gent.’s Mag. for 1848, p. 599.

[134] Eadmer, Histor. Nov., l. i. p. 16.

[135] John of Salisbury’s Life of Anselm.

[136] Rapin.

[137] William of Malmesbury.

[138] Burn’s Ecclesiastical Law, 209.

[139] Encyc. Brit., Title, Ring.

[140] London Gent’s Mag., vol. lxxi. p. 1082.

[141] Notes and Queries, viii. 387.

[142] Ib. 2d vol. 4th S., 300.

[143] Notes and Queries, v. 114.

[144] Ib. 492.

[145] Metamorph. ii. 34.

[146] Ennemoser, i. 258, et seq.

[147] Caylus, vi. 295, Pl. xciii.

[148] Addison, (Tickell’s edit.,) v. 178.

[149] Since writing the above, we have come across Ennemoser’s History of Magic, who refers to these hands; and while he takes up with the notion of their being votive offerings, he refers to the extended fingers to show that a cure had been effected by magnetic manipulation. In reference to one particular specimen, the author considers the hand itself to be an appropriate emblem from having performed the cure. (Vol. i. p. 255.) This, then, does away with the idea that a cure in the hand itself was effected; and if we take away the hand, the remarkable figures with which it was studded do not seem to be connected with or emblematical of any kind of disease. All this brings us nearer to our notion, that these hands were used as amulets.

[150] Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians, ii. 354.

[151] Fosbroke’s Encyc. of Antiquities, 246.

[152] Notes and Queries, v. 492.

[153] Whitlock’s Memoirs, p. 356.

[154] Fortescue de Laud. Legum Angl., cap. 50.

[155] 3 Cooke’s Reports, 3.

[156] Calmet’s Dictionary, Art. Bells.

[157] Roman Antiquities, by Foss, § 62.

[158] Ib. § 456.

[159] Brande’s Popular Antiquities, (by Ellis,) 264.

[160] Household Words: I Give and Bequeath.

[161] London Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lxxxiii. p. 17.

[162] Act 2, scene 1; and see Douce’s Illustrations, 383.

[163] Knight’s Bible.

[164] Spaniards and their Country, 66.

[165] Fosbroke’s Ency. of Antiquities, 247-8.

[166] Ency. Brit., Ency. Amer.

[167] P. 6.

[168] Oliver on Masonry, 168.

[169] P. 249.

[170] Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ, p. 943, (Bohn’s edit.)

[171] Maffei, vol. ii. pl. 20, p. 42.

[172] “The first author of it (general shout) was Pan, Bacchus’s Lieutenant-General in his Indian expedition, where, being encompassed in a valley with an army of enemies, far superior to them in number, he advised the god to order his men in the night to give a general shout, which so surprised the opposite army that they immediately fled from their camp; whence it came to pass that all sudden fears impressed upon men’s spirits without any just reason were called by the Greeks and Romans pannick terrors.”—Potter’s Greece, iii. c. 8.

[173] Maffei, vol. ii. pl. 21, p. 45.

[174] Archæologia, xxi. 127.

[175] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, p. 246.

[176] A Lapidary, or the History of Pretious Stones, with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious stones, (1652,) p. 51.