The Works of Lord Byron Volume IV Part 79

"So we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.

"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And Love itself have rest.

"Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon."

Letter to Moore, February 28, 1817, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 59.]

[ed] {412}_Suggesting dreams or unseen Symmetry_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[ee] _Which give their glitter lack, and the vast aether_.--[MS. M.

erased.]

[ef] ----_seaborn palaces_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[433] {413}[Compare "What, ma'amselle, don't you remember Ludovico, who rowed the Cavaliero's gondola at the last regatta, and won the prize?

and who used to sing such sweet verses about Orlando's ... all under my lattice ... on the moonlight nights at Venice?"--_Mysteries of Udolpho_, by Anne Radcliffe, 1882, p. 195. Compare, too, _Beppo_, stanza xv. lines 1-6, _vide ante_, p. 164.]

[434] [Compare "The gondolas gliding down the ca.n.a.ls are like coffins or cradles ... At night the darkness reveals the tiny lanterns which guide these boats, and they look like shadows pa.s.sing by, lit by stars.

Everything in this region is mystery--government, custom, love."--_Corinne or Italy_, by Madame de Stael, 1888, pp. 279, 280.

Compare, too--

"In Venice Ta.s.so's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless Gondolier."

_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza iii. lines 1, 2, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. note 3.]

[eg] ----_or towering spire_.--[MS. M.]

[eh] ----_at this moment_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[ei] {414} ----_Has he no name?_--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[ej] _His voice and carriage_----.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[ek] {415}_If so withdraw and fly and tell me not_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[el] {416}_Good I would now requite_----.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[em] _Remain at home_----.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[en] {417}_Why what hast thou to gainsay of the Senate?_--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[eo] _On the accursed tyranny which taints._--[Alternative reading. MS.

M.]

[ep] {418}_I would not draw my breath_----.--[Alternative reading. MS.

M.]

[435] {419}[If Gifford had been at the pains to _read_ Byron's ma.n.u.scripts, or revise the proofs, he would surely have pointed out, if he had not ventured to amend, his bad grammar.]

[436] {421}The Doge's family palace.

[eq] {422}_A Loredano_----.--[MS. erased.]

[437] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza xiv. line 3, _Poetical Works_, 1898, ii. 339, note i.]

[438] {423}[Compare "Themistocles was sacrificing on the deck of the admiral-galley."--_Plutarch's Lives_, Langhorne, 1838, p. 89.]

[439] [For Timoleon, who first saved, and afterwards slew his brother Timophanes, for aiming at sovereignty, see _The Siege of Corinth_, line 59, note 1, _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 452.]

[er] {424}_The night is clearing from the sky_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[440] [For the use of "dapple" as an intransitive verb, compare _Mazeppa_, xvi. line 646, _vide ante_, p. 227.]

[es] ----_Now--now to business_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[et] {425}_The signal_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

_The storm-clock_----.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[441] ["'Tis done ... unerring beak" (six lines), not in MS.]

[442] [Byron had forgotten the dictum of the artist Reinagle, that "eagles and all birds of prey attack with their talons and not with their beaks" (see _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xviii. line 6, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 226, note 1); or, possibly, had discovered that eagles attack with their beaks as well as their talons.]

[443] [_Vide ante_, p. 368, note 1.]

[eu]

----_ten thousand caps were flung_ _Into the air and thrice ten_----.--[MS. M. erased.]

[444] {426}[Compare--

"Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo!"

_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza xii. line 8, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 337.]

[ev]

/ _iron oracle_. _Where swings the sullen_ <> _huge oracular bell_. / [Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[445] {427} "I Signori di Notte" held an important charge in the old republic. [The surveillance of the "sestieri" was a.s.signed to the "Collegio dei Signori di notte al criminal." Six in all, they were at once police magistrates and superintendents of police. (See Cappelletti, _Storia, etc._, 1856, ii. 293.)]

[446] [The Doge overstates his authority. He could not preside without his Council "in the _Maggior Consiglio_, or in the Senate, or in the College; but four ducal councillors had the power to preside without the Doge. The Doge might not open despatches except in the presence of his Council, but his Council might open despatches in the absence of the Doge."--_Venetian Studies_, by H. F. Brown, 1887, p. 189.]

[ew] {428}_That thus you dare a.s.sume a brigand's power._--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[ex] ----_storm-clock._--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]

[447] [Byron may have had in his mind the "bell or clocke" (see _var._ ii.) in Southey's ballad of _The Inchcape Rock_.