The Works of Lord Byron Volume III Part 81

[373] [Leave out this couplet.--Gifford.]

[374] {480} [Compare--"While the still morn went out with sandals grey."

_Lycidas_, line 187.]

[375] [Strike out--"And the Noon will look on a sultry day."--Gifford.]

[376] The horsetails, fixed upon a lance, a pacha's standard.

["When the vizir appears in public, three _thoughs_, or horse-tails, fastened to a long staff, with a large gold ball at top, is borne before him."--_Moeurs des Ottomans_, par A. L. Castellan (Translated, 1821), iv. 7.

Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II., "Albanian War-Song," stanza 10, line 2; and _Bride of Abydos_, line 714 (_vide ante_, p. 189).]

[377] [Compare--"Send out moe horses, skirr the country round."

_Macbeth_, act v. sc. 3, line 35.]

[378] [Omit--

"While your fellows on foot, in a fiery ma.s.s, Bloodstain the breach through which they pa.s.s."

--Gifford.]

[379] ["And crush the wall they have _shaken_ before."--Gifford.]

[380] [Compare _The Giaour_, line 734 (_vide ante_, p. 120)--"At solemn sound of 'Alla Hu!'" And _Don Juan_, Canto VIII. stanza viii.]

[381] ["He who first _downs_ with the red cross may crave," etc. What vulgarism is this!--"He who _lowers_,--or _plucks down_,"

etc.--Gifford.]

[382] [The historian, George Finlay, who met and frequently conversed with Byron at Mesalonghi, with a view to ill.u.s.trating "Lord Byron's _Siege of Corinth_," subjoins in a note the full text of "the summons sent by the grand vizier, and the answer." (See Finlay's _Greece under Othoman and Venetian Domination_, 1856, p. 266, note 1; and, for the original authority, see Brue's _Journal de la Campagne_, ... _en_ 1715, Paris, 1871, p. 18.)]

[383] {482} ["Thus against the wall they _bent_, Thus the first were backward _sent_."

--Gifford.]

[qd] _With such volley yields like gla.s.s_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[qe] _Like the mowers ridge_----.--[MS. G. erased.]

[384] ["Such was the fall of the foremost train."--Gifford.]

[385] {483} [Compare _The Deformed Transformed_, Part I. sc. 2 ("Song of the Soldiers")--

"Our shout shall grow gladder, And death only be mute."]

[qf] _I have heard_----.--[MS. G.]

[386] [Compare _Macbeth_, act ii. sc. 2, line 55--

"If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal."]

[387] {484} ["There stood a man," etc.--Gifford.]

[388] ["_Lurked_"--a bad word--say "_was hid_."--Gifford.]

[389] ["Outnumbered his hairs," etc.--Gifford.]

[390] ["Sons that were unborn, when _he_ dipped."--Gifford.]

[391] {485} [Bravo!--this is better than King Priam's fifty sons.--Gifford.]

[392] In the naval battle at the mouth of the Dardanelles, between the Venetians and Turks.

[393] [There can be no such thing; but the whole of this is poor, and spun out.--Gifford. The solecism, if such it be, was repeated in _Marino Faliero_, act iii. sc. I, line 38.]

[394] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza xxix. lines 5-8 (_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 125)--

"Dark Sappho! could not Verse immortal save?...

If life eternal may await the lyre."]

[395] ["Hark to the Alia Hu!" etc.--Gifford.]

[396] {486} [Gifford has erased lines 839-847.]

[qg] _Though the life of thy giving would last for ever_.--[MS. G.

Copy.]

[qh] _Where's Francesca?--my promised bride!_--[MS. G. Copy.]

[qi] {488} Here follows in _MS. G._--

_Twice and once he roll'd a s.p.a.ce_, _Then lead-like lay upon his face_.

[qj] _Sigh, nor sign, nor parting word_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[397] [The Spanish "renegado" and the Anglicized "renegade" were favourite terms of reprobation with politicians and others at the beginning of the century. When Southey's _Wat Tyler_ was reprinted in 1817, William Smith, the Member for Norwich, denounced the Laureate as a "renegado," an attack which Coleridge did his best to parry by contributing articles to the _Courier_ on "Apostasy and Renegadoism"

(Letter to Murray, March 26, 1817, _Memoir of John Murray_, 1891, i.

306). Byron himself, in _Don Juan_ ("Dedication," stanza i. line 5), hails Southey as "My Epic Renegade!" Compare, too, stanza xiv. of "_Lines addressed to a n.o.ble Lord_ (His Lords.h.i.+p will know why), By one of the small Fry of the Lakes" (i.e. Miss Barker, the "Bhow Begum" of Southey's _Doctor_)--

"And our Ponds shall better please thee, Than those now dishonoured seas, With their sh.o.r.es and Cyclades Stocked with Pachas, Seraskiers, Slaves and turbaned Buccaneers; Sensual Mussulmans atrocious, Renegadoes more ferocious," etc.]

[qk] {489} _These in rage, in triumph those_.--[MS. G. Copy erased.]

[ql] _Then again in fury mixing_.--[MS. G.]

[398] ["Dealing _death_ with every blow."--Gifford.]

[399] {490} [Compare _Don Juan_, Canto XIII. stanza lxi. lines 1, _seq._--