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The introduction of Alexander the Great, Socrates, and a Roman emperor, is a strange jumble of times and persons.

A fine moral, which might be oftener remembered with advantage. The Gospel is to the Christian, what the ball of thread was to the knight: pity that it should so frequently be lost!

"Here seems to be an allusion to history."—. It is surely more analogous to the story of the Minotaur, and the clue furnished by Adriadne to her lover. Warton should have explained the resemblance he has fancied.

"Sicut cæteri milites." Here we discover those features of chivalry, so admirably ridiculed by