e. the New Testament.
[65.] How His first followers, etc. See _Acts of the Apostles_.
[66.] The precepts sage. See the _Epistles_.
[67.] He, who lone in Patmos, etc. St. John the Evangelist is said to
have been exiled to the island of Patmos, or Patmo, west of Asia Minor,
and there to have written the _Apocalypse_, or _Book of Revelation_.
The doom of Babylon is pronounced in Chapter xviii of that book.
[68.] Hope springs exulting, etc. See Pope's _Essay on Man_, Epistle
I, l. 95, and his _Windsor Forest_, l. 112.
[69.] The Power, the Almighty.
[70.] Haply, perhaps, perchance.
[71.] Princes and lords, etc. See _The Deserted Village_, lines 53 and
54.
[72.] An honest man's, etc. Pope's _Essay on Man_, Epistle IV, l. 247.
[73.] Certes, truly.
[74.] Wallace's undaunted heart. Sir William Wallace, born about 1274,
is one of the most famous of Scotch heroes. For a time he was a
successful opponent of Edward I of England, but he finally suffered
defeat, and in 1305 was captured and taken to London, where he was
tried, condemned, and beheaded. One of Burns's most celebrated songs
begins: "Scots, wha hae (who have) wi' Wallace bled." Scott tells of
Wallace in his _Tales of a Grandfather_.
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