ATTILA.

BOOK TWELFTH.

To be inserted in lieu of v. 165 § 166. 167-8 (now 405-6) not changed.

"Arm me with strength." This said, the virgin strove Repelling force with bold reluctancy,

And beam'd disdain; but strength was not vouchsafed, 380 Save to the soul, nor present aid, to shield

Woman's best attribute. Resistance chafed

Him absolute, and heat of inward rage
Suffused his sallow countenance.

The cup

In wassail deeply quaff'd and rank with drugs.
Mingled by vengeance to o'erwhelm the pulse
With vehement flood, and at its ebb induce
Slumberous oppression, work'd distemperature
Through all his frame. Upon his feeble prey,
Fierce as Hyrcanian tyger, dark as night,
His angry brow was fix'd; his arm retain'd
The palpitating victim of his will

385

390

Strictly embraced, and bow'd with rugged might
Her jewel-cinctured charms. Obstructed pride,
And passion wrought to perilous excess,

395

Made his heart strangely beat, and every throb
Sent back the ruddy tide with such a swell

B. 1. v. 150-1. read

ERRATA ET EMENDANDA.

with solemn chaunt

Unholy adoration,

B. 2. v. 721. for Right glad was Attila when those sounds ceased,
And, issuing from the gloom, read

Glad was the heart of Attila, when ceased

The deadly striving; and, emerging straight,
From that Tartarean gloom,

B. 3. v. 233. for loathly read guilty

B. 4. v. 168. for Saragossa read Calahorra

456. for blood read gore

B. 5. v. 531. for of the ill read of ill

B. 9. v. 8. read Lost to man's highest purposes, enslaved

B. 10. v. 296. for impious read Syrian

373. for loathsome read nauseous

B. 11. v. 127. for Set on a crucifix read Uplifted to a cross

B. 12. v. 346. for Mitraton read Mitatron

Hist. Treat. p. 343. L. 25. for Mysian read Moesian

Page 447. note, L. 10. read was fought

L. 15. read have had

Page 538. L. 17, dele the

546. L. 31. for Buonacosti read Buonaccorti

Page 359, note. Sozomen is quoted by mistake, instead of Socrates and some other writer, to whose work the reference is mislaid.