The Works of Lord Byron Volume IV Part 78

"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."

_Richard III_., act v. sc. 4, lines 9, 10.]

[420] {392}["The equestrian statue of which I have made mention in the third act as before the church, is not ... of a Faliero, but of some other now obsolete warrior, although of a later date."--_Vide ante_, Preface, p. 336. "In the Campo in front of the church [facing the Rio dei Mendicanti] stands the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, the second equestrian statue raised in Italy after the revival of the arts....The handsome marble pedestal is lofty, supported and flanked by composite columns."--_Handbook: Northern Italy_, p. 374.]

[dm] {393}_Nor dwindle to a cut-throat without shuddering_.--[MS. M.

erased.]

[dn] _A scourged mechanic_----.--[MS. M.] _A roused mechanic_----.--[MS.

M. erased.]

[421] {394}An historical fact. [See Appendix A, p. 464.]

[do]

/ _in_ _So let them die_ <> _one_.--[MS. M.]

_as_ /

[dp] {397}_We are all lost in wonder_--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[dq] ----_of our splendid City_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[422] [Compare--

"Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."

_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza i. line 9, and _var_. i.]

[dr] {398}_But all the worst sins of the Spartan state_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[ds] _The Lords of old Laconia_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

[423] {399}[Compare--

"A king of shreds and patches."

_Hamlet_, act iii. sc. 4, line 102.]

[424] ["The members of the Ten (_Il Cousiglio de' Dieci_) were elected in the Great Council for one year only, and were not re-eligible for the year after they had held office. Every month the Ten elected three of their own number as chiefs, or _Capi_ of the Council.... The court consisted, besides the Ten, of the Doge and his six councillors, seventeen members in all, of whom twelve were necessary to make a _quorum_. One of the _Avogadori di Comun_, or State advocates, was always present, without the power to vote, but to act as clerk to the court, informing it of the law, and correcting it where its procedure seemed informal. Subsequently it became customary to add twenty members to the Council, elected in the Maggior Consiglio, for each important case as it arose."--_Venice, an Historical Sketch_, by Horatio F. Brown, 1893, pp. 177, 178. (See, too, _Les Archives de Venise_, par Armand Baschet, 1870, p. 525.)]

[425] {400}[The chronicles are silent as to any emba.s.sy or commission from the Republic to Rhodes or Cyprus in which Marin Falier held office or took any part whatever. Cyprus did not pa.s.s into the hands of Venice till 1489, and Rhodes was held by the Knights of St. John till 1522.]

[426] {401}[Compare--

"We have scotched the snake, not killed it."

Macbeth, act iii. sc. II, line 13.]

[dt] {402}_Fought by my side, and John Grimani shared._--[MS. M.

erased.]

[427] [Marc Cornaro did not "share" his Genoese, but his Hungarian emba.s.sy.--_M. Faliero Avanti il Dogado: Archivio Veneto_, 1893, vol. v.

pt. i. p. 144.]

[du] {403}_My mission to the Pope; I saved the life._--[MS. M. erased.]

[dv]

_Bear witness with me! ye who hear and know,_ _And feel our mutual ma.s.s of many wrongs._--[MS. M. erased.]

[428] {404}[The Italian Oime recalls the Latin _Hei mihi_ and the Greek ???? [Greek: Oi~moi] ]

[429] [Compare--

"Have I not had my brain seared, my heart riven, Hope sapped, name blighted, Life's life lied away?"

_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza cx.x.xv. lines 5, 6.

And--

"The beings which surrounded him were gone.

Or were at war with him."

_The Dream_, sect. viii. lines 3, 4, _vide ante_, p. 40]

[dw] _Sate grinning Mockery_----.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[dx] {405}_The feelings they abused_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

[dy] ----_and then perish_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[dz] {406}

/ _carrion_ _Nor turn aside to strike at such a_ <>--[MS. M.]

_wretch_ /

[ea] {407}_You are a patriot, plebeian Gracchus_.--[Ed. 1832.] (MS., and First Edition, 1821, insert "a.")

[430] [Compare "Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation."--I _Henry IV_., act i. sc. 2, lines 101, 102.]

[eb] {409}_To this now shackled_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

[431] {410}[Byron told Medwin that he wrote "Lioni's soliloquy one moonlight night, after coming from the Benzoni's."--_Conversations_, 1824, p. 177.]

[ec] _High o'er the music_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

[432] {411}["At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The Carnival--that is, the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights, had knocked me up a little.... The mumming closed with a masked ball at the Fenice, where I went, as also to most of the ridottos, etc., etc.; and, though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty-nine.