XII. 1. 385. Out then, ye Dungflies ... see Book VI. for the fore-
shadowing of this infernal scourge of our times, made inevitable
by the copulation of original sin and the Printing Press.
XII. 1. 442. Face you the Angel with the brand: Justice.
XII. 1. 446. Escheat . . .; that is escheat which falls back to the
lord by forfeiture or default of heir.
Envoy, line 19. You faced the dawn: when he received the Fran-
chise in 1883. By 1 91 3 the first faint glimmerings of sunrise
were discernible. Mr. Lloyd George's bid for the agricultural
vote in the autumn of that year was one sign.
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NOTES

Id. 1. 26. Where first you saw him: in the Prelude to this work.
Id, 1. 60. The mighty have opprest the weak, , , . Here, dramatic-
ally, is the causa belli as far as our people, apart from their
governors, are concerned. They knew little of German pre-
tensions, nothing of Austrian entanglements, nor did they fear,
nor do they believe in, foreign hostile invasion. The attack on
Belgian liberty moved them as they have never been moved
before, and the knowledge gained afterwards of German bestial
frenzy only intensified their purpose. For freedom they have
always been willing to fight, and for it have been fighting their
masters for a thousand years. But this is the first time that,
as a race, they have risen, practically en masse, for the Idea of
Freedom, as it has revealed itself in the noble Belgian nation,
its protomartyr.
Id, I, 115. The bar of Spain . . .; the Pyrenees, where the Saracen
invasion was arrested.
Id. 1. 179. The forest on the ridge: Savemake.
