Melmoth the Wanderer

Endnotes

Mrs. Marshall, the original Roxana in Lee’s Alexander, and the only virtuous woman then on the stage. She was carried off in the manner described, by Lord Orrery, who, finding all his solicitations repelled, had recourse to a sham marriage performed by a servant in the habit of a clergyman. ↩
Vide Pope (copying from Donne).

“Peace, fools, or Gonson will for Papists seize you,
If once he catch you at your Jesu, Jesu.”

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Vide the Old Bachelor, whose Araminta, wearied by the repetition of these phrases, forbids her lover to address her in any sentence commencing with them. ↩
Vide any old play you may have the patience to peruse; or, instar omnium, read the courtly loves of Rodolphil and Melantha, Palamede and Doratice, in Dryden’s Marriage à la Mode. ↩
Vide Southern’s Oroonoko⁠—I mean the comic part. ↩
“A charm, a song, a murder, and a ghost.”
Prologue to Oedipus

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Vide Le Blanc’s Letters. ↩
Vide Betterton’s History of the Stage. ↩
Rochefoucault. ↩
Vide Cutter of Coleman Street. ↩
A fact, related to me by a person who was near committing suicide in a similar situation, to escape what he called “the excruciating torture of giddiness.” ↩
See Henry IV Second Part. ↩
“Fire for the cigars, and iced-water for drink.”⁠—A cry often heard in Madrid. ↩
Vide Buffa⁠—Anachronism prepense. ↩
Vide Madame Genlis’s Julien Delmour. ↩
Vide Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History for the truth of this part of the narrative. I have suppressed circumstances in the original too horrible for modern ears. ↩
This expression is not exaggerated. In the dreams of sorcery, or of imposture, the evil spirit was supposed to perform a mass in derision; and in Beaumont and Fletcher there is mention of “howling a black Santis,” i.e. Satan’s mass. ↩
We do not venture to guess at the horrors of this whisper, but everyone conversant with ecclesiastical history knows, that Tetzel offered indulgences in Germany, even on the condition that the sinner had been guilty of the impossible crime of violating the mother of God. ↩
Something between a bully and a rake. ↩
Vide Moore’s View of France and Italy. ↩
Fact⁠—me ipso teste. ↩
Vide Charlevoix’s History of Paraguay. ↩
This is a fact well established. ↩
I have read this somewhere, but cannot believe it. Coaches are mentioned by Beaumont and Fletcher, and even glass-coaches by Butler, in his Remains. ↩
This circumstance is related, I believe, in The Jewish Spy. ↩
“Flames reversed,” intimating that the criminal is not to be burned. ↩
The passion of the late king of Spain for field sports was well known. ↩
Quilibet postea paterfamilias, cum gallo prae manibus, in medium primus prodit.⁠ ⁠… Deinde expiationem aggreditur et capiti suo ter gallum allidit, singulosque ictus his vocibus prosequitur. Hic Gallus sit permutio pro me, etc.⁠ ⁠… Gallo deinde imponens manus, eum statim mactat, etc.

Vide Buxtorf, as quoted in Dr. Magee (Bishop of Raphoe’s) work on the atonement. Cumberland in his Observer, I think, mentions the discovery to have been reserved for the feast of the Passover. It is just as probable it was made on the day of expiation. ↩
The Jews believe in two Messiahs, a suffering and a triumphant one, to reconcile the prophecies with their own expectations. ↩
This extraordinary fact occurred after the dreadful fire which consumed sixteen persons in one house, in Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 1816. The writer of this heard the screams of sufferers whom it was impossible to save, for an hour and a half. ↩
This circumstance occurred in Ireland 1797, after the murder of the unfortunate Dr. Hamilton. The officer was answered, on inquiring what was that heap of mud at his horse’s feet⁠—“The man you came for.” ↩
In the year 1803, when Emmett’s insurrection broke out in Dublin⁠—(the fact from which this account is drawn was related to me by an eyewitness)⁠—Lord Kilwarden, in passing through Thomas Street, was dragged from his carriage, and murdered in the most horrid manner. Pike after pike was thrust through his body, till at last he was nailed to a door, and called out to his murderers to “put him out of his pain.” At this moment, a shoemaker, who lodged in the garret of an opposite house, was drawn to the window by the horrible cries he heard. He stood at the window, gasping with horror, his wife attempting vainly to drag him away. He saw the last blow struck⁠—he heard the last groan uttered, as the sufferer cried, “put me out of pain,” while sixty pikes were thrusting at him. The man stood at his window as if nailed to it; and when dragged from it, became⁠—an idiot for life. ↩
Written mountains, i.e. rocks inscribed with characters recordative of some remarkable event, are well known to every oriental traveller. I think it is in the notes of Dr. Coke, on the book of Exodus, that I have met with the circumstance alluded to above. A rock near the Red Sea is said once to have borne the inscription, “Israel hath passed the flood.” ↩
Vide Maurice’s Indian Antiquities. ↩
The Cupid of the Indian mythology. ↩
The Indian Apollo. ↩
The curtain behind which women are concealed. ↩
From the fireflies being so often found in the nest of the loxia, the Indians imagine he illuminates his nest with them. It is more likely they are the food of his young. ↩
Intellige “buildings.” ↩
Tipu Sahib wished to substitute the Muhammedan for the Indian mythology throughout his dominions. This circumstance, though long antedated, is therefore imaginable. ↩
I trust the absurdity of this quotation here will be forgiven for its beauty. It is borrowed from Miss Baillie, the first dramatic poet of the age. ↩
As, by a mode of criticism equally false and unjust, the worst sentiments of my worst characters (from the ravings of Bertram to the blasphemies of Cardonneau), have been represented as my own, I must here trespass so far on the patience of the reader as to assure him, that the sentiments ascribed to the stranger are diametrically opposite to mine, and that I have purposely put them into the mouth of an agent of the enemy of mankind. ↩
The Catholics and Protestants were thus distinguished in the wars of the League. ↩
Catholics. ↩
Protestants. ↩
Dissenters. ↩
Ireland. ↩
I have read the legend of this Polish saint, which is circulated in Dublin, and find recorded among the indisputable proofs of his vocation, that he infallibly swooned if an indecent expression was uttered in his presence⁠—when in his nurse’s arms! ↩
Alluding possibly to Romeo and Juliet. ↩
Vide Don Quixote, Vol. II. Smollet’s Translation. ↩
Here Monçada expressed his surprise at this passage (as savouring more of Christianity than Judaism), considering it occurred in the manuscript of a Jew. ↩
Fact⁠—it occurred in a French family not many years ago. ↩
Vide Cervantes, apud Don Quixote de Collibus Ubedae. ↩
Vide Jonson’s play, in which is introduced a Puritan preacher, a “Banbury man,” named Zeal-of-the-land Busy. ↩
I have been an inmate in this castle for many months⁠—it is still inhabited by the venerable descendant of that ancient family. His son is now High-Sheriff of the King’s county. Half the castle was battered down by Oliver Cromwell’s forces, and rebuilt in the reign of Charles the Second. The remains of the “castle” are a tower of about forty feet square, and five stories high, with a single spacious apartment on each floor, and a narrow staircase communicating with each, and reaching to the bartizan. A beautiful ash-plant, which I have often admired, is now displaying its foliage between the stones of the bartizan⁠—and how it got or grew there, heaven only knows. There it is, however; and it is better to see it there than to feel the discharge of hot water or molten lead from the apertures. ↩
See a comedy of Wycherly’s, entitled, Love in a Wood, or St. James’s Park, where the company are represented going there at night in masks, and with torches. ↩
Taylor’s Book of Martyrs. ↩
Anachronism⁠—n’importe. ↩
In Cowley’s Cutter of Coleman Street, Mrs. Tabitha, a rigid Puritan, tells her husband she had danced the Canaries in her youth. And in Rushworth’s Collections, if I remember right, Prynne vindicates himself from the charge of a general denunciation against dancing, and even speaks of the “Measures,” a stately, solemn dance, with some approbation. ↩
As this whole scene is taken from fact, I subjoin the notes whose modulation is so simple, and whose effect was so profound.

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Ireland⁠—forsan. ↩
Vide Dillon’s Travels Through Spain. ↩
The celebrated manufactory for glass in Spain. ↩
He called unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?⁠—Watchman, what of the night? —⁠Isaiah ↩
Vide the beautiful tale of Auheta the Princess of Egypt, and Maugraby the Sorcerer, in the Arabian Tales. ↩
From this it should seem that they were unacquainted with the story of Elinor Mortimer. ↩
Vide the original play, of which there is a curious and very obsolete translation. ↩