_Loud in the cave Debate waxed warm and strange_.--
[_January_ 6, 1814.]
_In that dark Council words waxed warm and strange_.--
[_January_ 13, 1814.]

[230] [Lines 1299-1375 were written after the completion of the poem.
They were forwarded to the publisher in time for insertion in a revise
dated January 6, 1814.]

[231] The comboloio, or Mahometan rosary; the beads are in number
ninety-nine. [_Vide ante_, p. 181, _The Bride of Abydos_, Canto II. line
554.]

[hy] {276}
_Methinks a short release by ransom wrought_
_Of all his treasures not too cheaply bought_.--[MS. erased.]
_Methinks a short release for ransom--gold_.--[MS.]

[hz] {277}
_Of thine adds certainty to all I heard_.--[MS.]

[ia] {278}
_When every coming hour might view him dead_.--[MS.]

[232] ["By the way--I have a charge against you. As the great Mr. Dennis
roared out on a similar occasion--'By G-d, _that_ is _my_ thunder!' so
do I exclaim, '_This_ is _my_ lightning!' I allude to a speech of
Ivan's, in the scene with Petrowna and the Empress, where the thought
and almost expression are similar to Conrad's in the 3d canto of _The
Corsair_. I, however, do not say this to accuse you, but to exempt
myself from suspicion, as there is a priority of six months'
publication, on my part, between the appearance of that composition and
of your tragedies" (Letter to W. Sotheby, September 25, 1815, _Letters_,
1899, iii. 219). The following are the lines in question:--

"And I have leapt
In transport from my flinty couch, to welcome
The thunder as it burst upon my roof,
And beckon'd to the lightning, as it flash'd
And sparkled on these fetters."
Act iv. sc. 3 (_Ivan_, 1816, p. 64).

According to Moore, this passage in _The Corsair_, as Byron seemed to
fear, was included by "some scribblers"--i.e. the "lumbering Goth" (see
John Bull's Letter), A. A. Watts, in the _Literary Gazette_, February
and March, 1821--among his supposed plagiarisms. Sotheby informed Moore
that his lines had been written, though not published, before the
appearance of the _Corsair_. The _Confession_, and _Orestes_, reappeared
with three hitherto unpublished tragedies, _Ivan_, _The Death of
Darnley_, and _Zamorin and Zama_, under the general title, _Five
Unpublished Tragedies_, in 1814.

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