No More Learning

_, p. 25). ]

[47] {135}["Examination by torture: 'Such presumption is only sufficient
to put the person to the rack or torture' (Ayliffe's _Parergon_). "--_Cent.
Dict. _, art. "Question. "]

[48] [Shakespeare, Milton, Thompson, and others, use "shook" for
"shaken. "]

[az] _As was proved on him_----. --[MS. M. ]

[49] [The inarticulate mutterings are probably an echo of the
"incantation and magic words" ("incantationem et verba quas sibi reperta
sunt de quibus ad funem utitur . . . quoniam in fune aliquam nec vocem nec
gemitum emittit sed solum inter dentes ipse videtur et auditur loqui"
[_Die beiden Foscari_, pp.
160, 161]), which, according to the decree of
the Council of Ten, dated March 26, 1451, Jacopo let fall "while under
torture" during his second trial. ]

[ba] {137} _I'll hence and follow Loredano home_. --[MS. M. ]

[bb] _That I had dipped the pen too heedlessly_. --[MS. M. ]

[bc] {138} _Mistress of Lombardy--'tis some comfort to me_. --[MS. M. ]

[50] [Compare "Ce fut l'epoque, ou Venise etendit son empire sur
Brescia, Bergame, Ravenne, et Creme; ou elle fonda sa domination de
Lombardie," etc. (Sismondi's _Histoire des Republiques_, x. 38). Brescia
fell to the Venetians, October, 1426; Bergamo, in April, 1428; Ravenna,
in August, 1440; and Crema, in 1453. ]

[51] {139}[The Bridge of Sighs was not built till the end of the
sixteenth century. (_Vide ante, Marino Faliero_, act i.