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solution, and other Catholic dogmas; but 
the Danes at the time were pagans. 
  St. Louis. Shakespeare, in Henry V. 
act i. se. 2, calls Louis X. " St. Louis," but 
" St. Louis" was Louis IX. It was Louis 
IX. whose "grandmother was Isabel," 
issue of Charles de Lorraine, the last of 
the Carlovingians. Louis X. was the son 
of Philippe IV. (le Bel) and grandson of 
Philippe III. and "Isabel of Aragon," not 
Isabel, "heir of Capet of the line of Charles 
the duke of Lorain." 
  Macbeth was no tyrant, as Shakespeare 
makes him out to be, but a firm and equit- 
able prince, whose title to the throne was 
better than that of Duncan. 
  Again, Macbeth was not slain by Mac- 
duff at Dunsin'ane, but made his escape 
from the battle, and was slain in 1056, 
at Lumphanan.-Lardner, Cabinet Cyc., 
17-19. 
  In The Winter's Tale, act v. sc. 2, one 
of the gentlemen refers to Julio Romano, 
the Italian artist and architect (1492-1546), 
certainly some 1800 years or more before 
Romano was born. 
  In Twelfth Night, the Illyrian clown 
speaks of St. Bennet's Church, London. 
"The triplex, sir, is a good tripping mea- 
sure, or the bells of St. Bennet's sure may 
put you in mind: one, two, three" (act v. 
se. 1) ; as if the duke was a Londoner. 
  SPENSER. Bacchus or Saturn? In the 
Fairy Queen, iii. 11, Britomart saw in the 
castle of Bu'sirane (3 syl.), a picture de- 
scriptive of the love of Saturn, who had 
changed himself into a centaur out of love 
for Erig'onA. It was not Saturn, but 
Bacchus who loved Erig'onA, and he was 
not tranformed into a centaur, but to a 
horse. 
  Beone or (Enone ? In bk. vi. 9 (Fairy 
  Queen) the lady-love of Paris is called Ben- 
5n6, which ought to be (En~nA. The poet 
 
 
says  that Paris  was "by    Plexippus' 
brook" when the golden apple was brought 
to him; but no such brook is mentioned 
by any classic author. 
  Critias and Socrates. In bk. ii. 7 (Fagry 
Queen) Spencer says: "The wise Socrates 
... poured out his life.., to the dear Cri- 
tias; his dearest bel-amie." It was not 
Socrates, but Theram'enes, one of the thir- 
ty tyrants, who in quaffing the poison-cup, 
said smiling, " This I drink to the health 
of fair Critias."--Cicero, Tusculan Ques- 
tions. 
  Critias or Crito ? In Fairy Queen, iv. 
(introduction), Spenser says that Socrates 
often discoursed of love to his friend Cri- 
tias; but it was Crito, or rather Criton, 
that the poet means. 
  Cyprus and Paphos. Spenser makes 
Sir Scudamore speak of a temple of Venus, 
far more beautiful than "that in Paphos, 
or that in Cyprus; " but Paphos was 
merely a town in the island of Cyprus, 
and the "two" are but one and the same 
temple.-Fa6ry Queen, iv. 10. 
  Hippomands. Spenser says the golden 
apples of Mammon's garden were better 
than 
Those with which the Eubfean young man won 
       Swift Atalanta. 
                      Fairy Queen, ii. 7. 
The young man was Hippom'an6s.      He 
was not a "Eubvean," but a native of 
Onchestos, in Boeo'tia. 
  TENNYSON, in the Last Tournament, says 
(ver. 1), Dagonet was knighted in mockery 
by Sir Gaw'ain; but in the History of 
Prince Arthur we are distinctly told that 
King Arthur knighted him with his own 
hand (pt. ii. 91). 
  In Gareth and Lynette the same poet 
says that Gareth was the son of Lot and 
Bellicent; but we are told a score times 
and more in the History of Prince Arthur, 
 
 
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