complished man of his age, was killed at the battle of Newbury, charging in the ranks of Lord Byron's regiment of cavalry. Page 121, line 108. Loathing the offering of so dark a death. This is an historical fact. violent tempest occurred immediately subsequent to the death or interment of Cromwell, which occasioned many disputes between his partisans and the cavaliers: both interpreted the circumstance into divine interposition. Page 123, line 90. Pomposus. [See the poem On a Change of Masters. Page 93.] Page 125, line 243. Alonzo. [John Wingfield, who died at Coimbra, in 1811.] Line 266. Davus. [The Rev. John Cecil Tattersall, who died in 1812.] Page 126, line 274. The rustic's musket aim'd against my life. [The factious strife' here recorded was accidentally brought on by the breaking up of school, and the dismissal of some volunteers from drill, both happening at the same hour. On this occasion, it appears, the butt-end of a musket was aimed at Byron's head, and would have felled him to the ground, but for the interposition of Tattersall.] Line 287. Lycus. [John Fitzgibbon, second Earl of Clare. His father, whom he succeeded Jan. 28, 1802, was for nearly twelve years Lord Chancellor of Ireland.] Line 301. Euryalus. [George John, fifth Earl of Delawarr.] Line 326. Cleon. [Edward Noel Long, Esq.] Page 127, line 351. When my first harangue received applause. ['My qualities were much more oratorical than poetical, and Dr. Drury, my grand patron, had a notion that I should turn out an orator from my fluency, my turbulence, my voice, my copiousness of declamation, and my action.' -Byron Diary.] Page 132, line 41. Seat of my youth! [Harrow.] Line 51. Lycus. [The Earl of Clare.] Page 133. To EDWARD NOEL LONG. [This young gentleman, who was with Lord Byron both at Harrow and Cambridge, afterwards entered the Guards, and served with distinction in the expedition to Copenhagen. He was drowned early in 1809, when on his way to join the army in the Peninsula; the transport in which he sailed being run foul of in the night by another of the convoy. 'Long's father,' says Lord Byron, wrote to me to write his son's epitaph. I promised - but I had not the heart to complete it. He was such a good, amiable being as rarely remains long in this world; with talent and accomplishments, too, to make him the more regretted.' - Byron Diary, 1821.] Page 137, line 43. Poor LITTLE! sweet, melodious bard! These stanzas were written soon after the appearance of a severe critique, in a northern review, on a new publication of the British Anacreon. [Thomas Little, the pen name of Moore.] Page 138. LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW. [On losing his natural daughter, Allegra, in April, 1822, Lord Byron sent her remains to be buried at Harrow, where,' he says in a letter to Murray, April 22, I once hoped to have laid May 26, a spot in the church-yard, near the footown.' There is,' he adds, in a later letter, path, on the brow of the hill looking towards Windsor, and a tomb under a large tree (bearing the name of Peachie, or Peachey), where I used to sit for hours and hours when a boy; this was my favourite spot; but as I wish to erect a tablet to her memory, the body had better be deposited in the church;'-and it was so deposited accordingly.] Page 141. To A KNOT OF UNGENEROUS CRITICS. [There can be little doubt that these verses were called forth by the criticisms passed on the Fugitive Pieces by certain ladies of Southwell.-E. H. COLERIDGE.] Page 142, line 32. Wilmot's verse. published by John Wilmot in 1680.] [Poems Page 144, line 5. I've lived, as many other men live. [Murray prints: 'I've lived, as many others live.' Apparently a misprint, as the rhyme demands the change here made.] Page 145, line 41. Fields, which surround yon rustic cot. [Mrs. Pigot's Cottage.] Page 146, line 55. Mary. [Mary Duff, or, according to E. H. Coleridge, Mary Chaworth.] Line 61. And thou, my Friend! [See the verses on The Cornelian, page 113.] Page 149. To AN ОАК АТ NEWSTEAD. [Lord Byron, on his first arrival at Newstead, in 1798, planted an oak in the garden, and nourished the fancy, that as the tree flourished so should he. On revisiting the abbey, during Lord Grey de Ruthven's residence there, he found the oak choked up by weeds, and almost destroyed; - hence these lines. Shortly after Colonel Wildman took possession, he one day noticed it, and said to the servant who was with him, Here is a fine young oak; but it must be cut down, as it grows in an improper place.'-'I hope not, sir,' replied the man; 'for it's the one that my lord was so fond of, because he set it himself."] Page 150. ON REVISITING HARROW. Some years ago, when at Harrow, a friend of the author engraved on a particular spot the names of both, with a few additional words, as a memorial. Afterwards, on receiving some real or imagined injury, the author destroyed the frail record before he left Harrow. On revisiting the place in 1807, he wrote under it these stanzas. Page 150. To charm her ear while some remains. [So printed in Murray. Some' would appear to be a wrong reading for sense.'] Page 151. To HARRIET. [The Harriet Maltby of the poem entitled To Marion. Page 100.] Page 154. INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. [This monument is still a conspicuous ornament in the garden of Newstead. The following is the inscription by which the verses are preceded: Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, Page 160. WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS. On the 3d of May, 1810, while the Salsette (Captain Bathurst) was lying in the Dardanelles, Lieutenant Ekenhead of that frigate and the writer of these rhymes swam from the European shore to the Asiaticby the by, from Abydos to Sestos would have been more correct. The whole distance from the place whence we started to our landing on the other side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles; though the actual breadth is barely one. Page 160. Maid of Athens. [Mr. Hugh Williams in his Travels in Italy, Greece, etc., has the following: Our servant, who had gone before to procure accommodation, met us at the gate, and conducted us to Theodore Macri, the Consulina's, where we at present live. This lady is the widow of the consul, and has three lovely daughters; the eldest celebrated for her beauty, and said to be the "Maid of Athens" of Lord Byron. Their apartment is immediately opposite to ours, and, if you could see them, as we do now, through the gently waving aromatic plants before our window, you would leave your heart in Athens."] Page 160. Ζώη μου, σάς ἀγαπῶ. Romaic expression of tenderness. It means, My life, I love you!' Page 161. By all the token-flowers that tell. In the East (where ladies are not taught to write, lest they should scribble assignations) flowers, cinders, pebbles, etc., convey the sentiments of the parties by that universal deputy of Mercury - an old woman. A cinder says, I burn for thee; a bunch of flowers tied with hair, Take me and fly; but a pebble declares what nothing else can. Line 1. Sons of the Greeks, arise! The song was written by Riga, who perished in the attempt to revolutionise Greece. This translation is as literal as the author could make it in verse. It is of the same measure as that of the original. Page 162, line 19. The seven-hill'd city. Constantinople, Επτάλοφος. Line 1. I enter thy garden of roses. The song from which this is taken is a great favourite with the young girls of Athens of all classes. Their manner of singing it is by verses in rotation, the whole number present joining in the chorus. I have heard it frequently at our xópol, in the winter of 1810-11. The air is plaintive and pretty. Page 163. JOSEPH BLACKET. [A cobbler (1786-1810) who attained some celebrity as a poet. He was praised by Southey, and was patronized by the Milbanke family.] Page 164. EPISTLE TO A FRIEND. Francis Hodgson.] [Rev. Page 168. LINES TO A LADY WEEPING. [This impromptu owed its birth to an on dit, that the Princess Charlotte of Wales burst into tears on hearing that the Whigs had found it impossible to put together a cabinet, at the period of Mr. Perceval's death. They were appended to the first edition of The Corsair, and excited a sensation marvelously disproportionate to their length, or, we may add, their merit. The ministerial prints raved for two months on end, in the most foul-mouthed vituperation of the poet, and all that belonged to him the Morning Post even announced a motion in the House of Lords-and all this,' Byron writes to Moore, as Bedreddin in the Arabian Nights remarks, for making a cream tart with pepper: how odd, that eight lines should have given birth, I really think, to eight thousand!'] Page 169. O'er her Druid's tomb. [The reader will recall Collins's exquisite lines on the tomb of Thomson: In yonder grave a Druid lies,' etc.] Page 170, line 61. And censure, wisely loud, be justly mute. The following lines were omitted by the Committee: - Nay, lower still, the Drama yet deplores The past reproach let present scenes refute, Page 175. THE DEVIL'S DRIVE. [Of this rambling satire, filled with political allusions to Castlereagh and the politics of the day, the following stanzas were first published in the edition of 1904 from a manuscript in the possession of the Earl of Ilchester: 6, 7, 9, 13-16, 19-27.) Page 180, line 26. Pagod. [Pagoda, an idol.] Line 29. The rapture of the strife. Certaminis gaudia'. the expression of Attila in his harangue to his army, previous to the battle of Chalons, given in Cassiodorus. Line 46. He who of old would rend the oak. [Out of town six days. On my return found my poor little pagod, Napoleon, pushed off his pedestal. It is his own fault. Like Milo, he would rend the oak; but it closed again, wedged his hands, and now the beasts- lion, bear, down to the dirtiest jackal may all tear him. That Muscovite winter wedged his arms.'- Byron's Journal, April 8, 1814.] Line 55. The Roman, when his burning heart. Sylla. Line 64. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway. [The Emperor Charles V., who abdicated in 1555 and retired to a monastery.] Page 181, line 125. Corinth's pedagogue. [Dionysius II., on losing Syracuse, retired as a private man to Corinth, where he is said to have taught school.] Line 127. Thou Timour. The cage of Bajazet, by order of Tamerlane. Line 142. The very Fiend's arch mock. [The edition of 1832 contained this note, of uncertain allusion: We believe there is no doubt of the truth of the anecdote here alluded to - of Napoleon's having found leisure for an unworthy amour, the very evening of his arrival at Fontainebleau.'] Page 183, line 38. And wean from penury the soldier's heir. [The edition of 1900 adds the following six lines from the manuscript: Or deem to living war-worn Valour just Each wounded remnant - Albion's cherish'd trust Warm his decline with those endearing rays, Whose bounteous sunshine yet may gild his days — So shall that Country- while he sinks to rest His hand hath sought for - by his heart be blest! Like most of these late accretions to Byron's acknowledged works they had better have been left to oblivion.] Line 8. The thought of Brutus -for his was not there! [See note on page 64, line 525.] Page 187, line 8. Labedoyère. [An officer of Napoleon. Despite many appeals to Louis XVIII., he was shot, August 19, 1815.] Line 18. Like the Wormwood Star foretold. See Rev. chap. viii, v. 7, &c. Line 36. And thou, too, of the snow-white plume! [Poor dear Murat, what an end! His white plume used to be a rallying point in battle, like Henry the Fourth's. He refused a confessor and a bandage; so would neither suffer his soul nor body to be bandaged.'- B. Letter to Moore, November 4, 1815.] Line 37. Whose realm refused thee ev'n a tomb. Murat's remains are said to have been torn from the grave and burnt. Page 188, line 21. Of three bright colours, each divine. The tricolour. Page 193, line 46. Till vanquish'd senates trembled as they praised. [February 7, 1787, Sheridan spoke for over five hours on the impeachment of Warren Hastings. Pitt thereupon moved the adjournment of the debate, on the ground that the minds of the members were too agitated to discuss the question with coolness.] Line 82. And stoop to strive with Misery at the door. [This was not fiction. Only a few days before his death, Sheridan wrote thus to Mr. Rogers: I am absolutely undone and brokenhearted. They are going to put the carpets out of window, and break into Mrs. S.'s room and take me: 150l. will remove all difficulty. For God's sake let me see you!' Moore was the immediate bearer of the required sum. This was written on the 15th of May. On the 14th of July, Sheridan's remains were deposited in Westminster Abbey, his pallbearers being the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Lauderdale, Earl Mulgrave, the Lord Bishop of London, Lord Holland, and Earl Spencer.] Page 194, line 103. The worthy rival of the wondrous Three! Fox - Pitt Burke. Page 196. When that vast edifice display'd Looks with its venerable face. [So in the Murray edition. There would seem to be some error in the text. Possibly a line has dropped out between the two here given.] Page 211, line 15. Reversed for him our grandsire's fate of yore. [Admiral Byron was remarkable for never making a voyage without a tempest. He was known to the sailors by the facetious name of Foul-weather Jack.'] Page 212, line 73. I did remind thee of our own dear Lake. The lake of Newstead Abbey. Page 216, line 191. Like to the Pontic monarch. Mithridates. Page 226. Scurra - Mamurra. [Scurra, a wit. -Mamurra, the favorite of Cæsar savagely lampooned by Catullus.] Page 227. Tom Sternhold. [Thomas Sternhold (1500-1549), author, with John Hopkins, of a metrical version of the Psalms.] 66 Page 227. Hetman. [A Cossack chief.] Page 230. I READ THE CHRISTABEL." [The Missionary was written by Mr. Bowles; Ilderim by Mr. Gally Knight; and Margaret of Anjou by Miss Holford.] Page 230. Perry. [James Perry (1756-1821), editor and proprietor of the Morning Chronicle.] Page 231. DEAR DOCTOR, I HAVE READ YOUR PLAY.' [John William Polidori (17951821), physician and author. In 1816 he went as physician and secretary to Lord Byron, then departing on his exile from England. His whimsical and jealous temper led to a separation before Byron left Switzerland. His most noted work is the The Vampire, published in 1819, which he attributed to Byron. For the other names in this poem the reader is referred to the Dictionary of National Biography.] Page 241, line 1. Still must I hear? Imit. Semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne repo nam, Vexatus toties rauci Theseide Codri? Juv. Sat. I. 1. Line 1. Hoarse Fitzgerald. (For the long period of thirty-two years, William Thomas Fitzgerald, poetaster, was an attendant at the anniversary dinners of the Literary Fund, and constantly honored the occasion with an ode, which he himself recited with most comical dignity of emphasis.] Page 242, line 21. Like Hamet's, shall be free. Cid Hamet Benengeli promises repose to his pen, in the last chapter of Don Quixote. Oh! that our voluminous gentry would follow the example of Cid Hamet Benengeli! [Byron's text reads shall for shalt.] Line 55. This Lambe must own. [George Lamb, the first cousin of Lady Byron, was the author of a farce, Whistle for It, which was damned with great expedition at Covent Garden.' He also wrote for the Edinburgh Review.] Line 65. Hackney'd jokes from Miller. [A popular book of jests attributed to 'Joe' Miller.] Line 82. Jeffrey's heart or Lambe's Baotian head. This was not just. Neither the heart nor the head of these gentlemen are at all what they are here represented. At the time this was written, I was personally unacquainted with either.' B. 1816.] Page 243, line 87. While these are censors, 'twould be sin to spare. Line 93. Then should you ask me. Imit. Cur tamen hoc potius libeat decurrere campo Per quem magnus equos Aurunca flexit alumnus : Si vacat, et placidi rationem admittitis, edam. Juv. Sat. I. 19. Line 94. Gifford. [William Gifford (1756– 1826), poet, editor, critic, was the author of several original satires, notably the Baviad and the Maeviad. Through his connection with Murray he had much to do with the punctuation and formation of Byron's text.] Line 100. Pye. [Henry James Pye was poet laureate from 1790 till 1813.] Line 103. Time was, ere yet in these degenerate days. [The first edition of the Satire opened with this line.] Line 128. Little's lyrics. [Moore published his early poems under the name Thomas Little, Esq.] Line 132. The cow-pox, tractors, galvanism, and gas. [Cow-pox, vaccination; tractors, a quack panacea of the day; gas, laughing gas.] Line 142. Stott. Stott, better known in the Morning Post by the name of Hafiz. This personage is at present the most profound explorer of the bathos. I remember, when the reigning family left Portugal, a special Ode of Master Stott's, beginning thus: (Stott loquitur quoad Hibernia). 'Princely offspring of Braganza, Erin greets thee with a stanza,' &c. Page 244, line 153. Lays of Minstrels. See the Lay of the Last Minstrel, passim. Never was any plan so incongruous and absurd as the groundwork of this production. The entrance of Thunder and Lightning, prologuising to Bayes' tragedy, unfortunately takes away the merit of originality from the dialogue between Messieurs the Spirits of Flood and Fell in the first canto. Then we have the amiable William of Deloraine, a stark moss-trooper,' videlicet, a happy compound of poacher, sheep-stealer, and highwayman. The propriety of his magical lady's injunction not to read can only be equalled by his candid acknowledgment of his independence of the trammels of spelling, although, to use his own elegant phrase, ''t was his neck-verse at Harribee,' i. e. the gallows. The biography of Gilpin Horner, and the marvellous pedestrian page, who travelled twice as fast as his master's horse, without the aid of seven-leagued boots, are chefs-d'œuvre in the improvement of taste. For incident we have the invisible, but by no means sparing box on the ear bestowed on the page, and the entrance of a knight and charger into the castle, under the very natural disguise of a wain of hay. Marmion, the hero of the latter romance, is exactly what William of Deloraine would have been, had he been able to read and write. The poem was manufactured for Messrs. Constable, Murray, and Miller, worshipful booksellers, in consideration of the receipt of a sum of money; and Page 245, line 234. God help thee,' Southey. The last line, God help thee,' is an evident plagiarism from the Anti-Jacobin to Mr. Southey, on his Dactylics. [Gifford's parody on Southey's Dactylics, which ends thus:'Dactylics, call'st thou 'em?- "God help thee, silly one.""] Line 240. For fear of growing double.' Lyri cal Ballads, p. 4.- The Tables Turned, stanza 1. Line 250. Confounded night with day. Mr. W. in his preface labours hard to prove, that prose and verse are much the same; and eertainly his precepts and practice are strictly conformable: And thus to Betty's questions he Made answer, like a traveller bold : "The cock did crow, to-whoo, to-whoo, And the sun did shine so cold."'' Lyrical Ballads, p. 179. Line 260. Takes a pixy for a muse. ridge's Poems, p. 11, Songs of the Pixies, i. e. Devonshire fairies; p. 42, we have, Lines to a Young Lady; and, p. 52, Lines to a Young Ass. Cole Line 265. Lewis. [Matthew Gregory Lewis, M. P. for Hindon, never distinguished himself in Parliament, but, mainly in consequence of the clever use he made of his knowledge of the German language, then a rare accomplishment, attracted much notice in the literary world, at a very early period of his life. His Tales of Terror, the drama of the Castle Spectre, and the novel of The Monk invested the name of Lewis with an extraordinary degree of celebrity.] Page 246, line 297. Hibernian_Strangford! with thine eyes of blue. The reader, who may wish for an explanation of this, may refer to Strangford's Camoëns, p. 127, note to p. 56, or to the last page of the Edinburgh Review of Strangford's Camoëns. Line 310. Hayley. William Havley (17451820), author of The Triumphs of Temper and The Triumph of Music, etc., is chiefly remembered as the friend and biographer of Cowper. Ye tarts, the pastry cook, like the trunkmaker, is supposed to preside over the limbo of defunct literature.] Line 321. Grahame. Mr. Grahame has poured forth two volumes of cant, under the name of Sabbath Walks, and Biblical Pictures. Line 327. Hail, Sympathy! thy soft idea brings. [Immediately before this line, we find, in the original manuscript, the following, which Lord Byron good-naturedly consented to omit, at the request of Mr. Dallas, who was, no doubt, a friend of the scribbler they refer to: In verse most stale, unprofitable, flat — To which this note was appended: - Mr. Pratt, once a Bath bookseller, now a London author, has written as much, to as little purpose, as any of his scribbling cotemporaries. Mr. P.'s Sympathy is in rhyme ; but his prose productions are the most voluminous.' The more popular of these last were entitled Gleanings.] Line 351. Awake a louder and a loftier strain.” The first line in Bowles's Spirit of Discovery: a very spirited and pretty dwarf Epic. Among other exquisite lines we have the following: -'A kiss Stole on the list'ning silence, never yet Here heard; they trembled even as if the power,' &c., &c. That is, the woods of Madeira trembled to a kiss; very much astonished, as well they might be, at such a phenomenon. [Misquoted and misunderstood by me; but not intentionally. It was not the "woods," but the people in them who trembled - why, Heaven only knows unless they were overheard making this prodigious smack.' - B., 1816.] Line 358. A gentle episode. The episode above alluded to is the story of Robert à Machin' and 'Anna d'Arfet,' a pair of constant lovers, who performed the kiss above mentioned, that startled the woods of Madeira. Line 372. Consult Lord Fanny and confide in Curll. Curll is one of the Heroes of the Dunciad, and was a bookseller. Lord Fanny is the poetical name of Lord Hervey, author of Lines to the Imitator of Horace. Page 247, line 378. What Mallet did for hire. Lord Bolingbroke hired Mallet to traduce Pope after his decease, because the poet had retained some copies of a work by Lord Bolingbroke the Patriot King - which that splendid, but malignant, genius had ordered to be destroyed. Line 380. To rave with Dennis, and with Ralph to rhyme. Dennis the critic, and Ralph the rhymester. Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, Dunciad. Line 382. Not raised thy hoof against the lion dead. See Bowles's late edition of Pope's works, for which he received three hundred pounds. Thus Mr. B. has experienced how much easier it is to profit by the reputation of another than to elevate his own. Line 391. Fresh fish from Hippocrene. [““ Helicon" is a mountain, and not a fish-pond. It should have been "Hippocrene."-B., 1816. The text has read Helicon; Byron's correction is followed.] Line 406. Cottle. Mr. Cottle, Amos, Joseph, I don't know which, but one or both, once sellers of books they did not write, and now writers of books they do not sell, have published a pair of Epics-Alfred (poor Alfred! Pye has been at him too!) Alfred and the Fall of Cambria. [Joseph Cottle is the author of these works.] Line 414. Maurice. Mr. Maurice [the Rev. Thomas Maurice, 1754-1824] hath manufactured the component parts of a ponderous quarto, upon the beauties of Richmond Hill, and the like: it also takes in a charming view of Turnham Green, Hammersmith, Brentford, Old and New, and the parts adjacent. Line 424. Sheffield. Poor Montgomery, though praised by every English Review, has been bitterly reviled by the Edinburgh. After all, the bard of Sheffield is a man of considerable genius. His Wanderer of Switzerland is worth a thousand Lyrical Ballads, and at least fifty 'degraded epics.' [James Montgomery (17711854) edited a newspaper at Sheffield.] Page 248, line 467. And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by. In 1806, Messrs. Jeffrey and Moore met at Chalk-Farm. The duel was prevented by the interference of the magistracy; and on examination, the balls of the pistols were found to have evaporated. This incident gave occasion to much waggery in the daily prints. [The above note was struck out of the fifth edition, and the following, after being submitted to Moore, substituted in its place:-'I am informed that Mr. Moore published at the time a disavowal of the statements in the newspapers, as far as regarded himself; and, in justice to him, I mention this circumstance. As I never heard of it before, I cannot state the particulars, and was only made acquainted with the fact very lately.". November 4, 1811.] Line 472. Tweed ruffled half his waves. The Tweed here behaved with proper decorum; it would have been entirely reprehensible in the English half of the river to have shown the smallest symptom of apprehension. Line 509. Athenian Aberdeen. His lordship has been much abroad, is a member of the Athenian Society, and reviewer of Gell's Topography of Troy. [George Hamilton Gordon, fourth Earl of Aberdeen. In 1822, he published an Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture.] Line 510. Herbert. Mr. Herbert is a translator of Icelandic and other poetry. One of the principal pieces is a Song on the Recovery of Thor's Hammer: the translation is a pleasant chant in the vulgar tongue, and endeth thus: Instead of money and rings, I wot, The hammer's bruises were her lot, Thus Odin's son his hammer got.' [The Hon. William Herbert, brother to the Earl of Carnarvon. He also published, in 1811, Helga, a poem in seven cantos.] Line 512. Sydney. The Rev. Sydney Smith, the reputed author of Peter Plymley's Letters, and sundry criticisms. Line 515. Pillans. Pillans is a tutor at Eton. [James Pillans (1778-1864), Rector of the High School, and Professor of Humanity in the University, Edinburgh. Byron probably assumed that the review of Hodgson's Translation of Ju |