NOTES ON TALE V.
[Footnote 1: _There really was such a person._.]
[Footnote 2: _The gentleman who discovered Otaheite, in company with Dr.
Solander._]
[Footnote 3: _Lady Ailesbury's._]
[Footnote 4: _At Park-place there is such a passage cut through a
chalk-hill: when dogs are in the middle, the light from the mouth makes
their eyes appear in the manner here described._]
[Footnote 5: _Copeland, the gardiner, a very grave person._]
[Footnote 6: _Consequently they seem to have been larger._]
[Footnote 7: _The rustic bridge at Park-place was built by general
Conway, to carry the road from Henley, and to leave the communication
free between his grounds on each side of the road. Vide last page of
4th. vol. of Anecdotes of Painting._]
[Footnote 8: _The old woman who kept the cottage built by general Conway
to command a glorious prospect. Ford-house is a farm house at the
termination of the grounds._]
[Footnote 9: _A fictitious tomb in a beautiful spot by the river, built
for a point of view: it has a small pyramid on it._]
TALE VI.
_A true Love Story_.
In the height of the animosities between the factions of the Guelfs and
Ghibellines, a party of Venetians had made an inroad into the
territories of the Viscontis, sovereigns of Milan, and had carried off
the young Orondates, then at nurse.
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