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Page 20. According to Lord Lytton the incident on which Schiller's poem, The Glove, is founded is recorded in Historical Essays on Paris, by M. St. Foix. It appears, however, that this old French story was also told by Pierre de Ronsard, the father of lyric poetry in France. Leigh Hunt and Browning hâve repeated it in English verse. The latter poet déclares —

" 'Twas mère vanity, Not love, set that task to humanity."