as
from home; but finding _Vathek_ on the table, the lady wrote in the
first page of the volume the words, "Remember me!" Byron immediately
wrote under the ominous warning these two stanzas.--_Conversations of
Lord Byron_, by Thomas Medwin, 1824, pp. 329, 330.

In Medwin's work the euphemisms _false_ and _fiend_ are represented by
asterisks.]

[49] {60} ["To Bd., Feb. 22, 1813.

"'Remember thee,' nay--doubt it not--
Thy Husband too may '_think_' of thee!
By neither canst thou be forgot,
Thou false to him--thou fiend to me!

"'Remember thee'? Yes--yes--till Fate
In Lethe quench the guilty dream.
Yet then--e'en then--Remorse and _Hate_
Shall vainly quaff the vanquished stream."

From a MS. (in the possession of Mr. Hallam Murray) not in Byron's
handwriting.]

[bs] {61} ----_not confessed thy power_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[bt] ----_still forgets the hour_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[bu] {64} _Song_.--[_Childe Harold_, 1814.]

[50] ["I send you some lines which may as well be called 'A Song' as
anything else, and will do for your new edition."--B.--(MS. M.)]

[bv] _But her who not_----.--[MS. M.]

[bw] {65} _To Ianthe_.--[MS. M. Compare "The Dedication" to _Childe
Harold_.]

[51] {67} [It is possible that these lines, as well as the Sonnets "To
Genevra," were addressed to Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster.--See
_Letters,_ 1898, ii. 2, note 1; and _Letters,_ 1899, iii. 8, note 1.]

[bx] _To him who loves and her who loved_.--[MS. M.]

[by] _That trembling form_----.--[MS. M.]

[bz]
_Resigning thee, alas! I lost_
_Joys bought too dear, if bright with tears,_
_Yet ne'er regret the pangs it cost_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[ca] _And crush_----.--[MS. M.]

[cb] _And I been not unworthy thee_.--[MS. M.]

[cc] _Long may thy days_----.--[MS. M.]

[cd] _Might make my hope of guilty joy_.--[MS.]

[52] [Byron forwarded these lines to Moore in a postscript to a letter
dated September 27, 1813. "Here's," he writes, "an impromptu for you by
a 'person of quality,' written last week, on being reproached for low
spirits."--_Letters_, 1898, ii. 268. They were written at Aston Hall,
Rotherham, where he "stayed a week ... and behaved very well--though the
lady of the house [Lady F. Wedderburn Webster] is young, and religious,
and pretty, and the master is my particular friend."--_Letters_, 1898,
ii. 267.]

[ce] {70} _And bleed_----.--[MS. M.]

[53] ["Redde some Ita