warning," he went on to say, "by this example. Bonaparte split on
this rock of conscription," etc. This would have pleased Byron, who
confided to his _Journal_, December 3, 1813 (_Letters_, 1898, ii. 360),
that the statement that "my rhymes are very popular in the United
States," was "the first tidings that have ever sounded like _Fame_ to my
ears."]

[250] ["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."--_Journal_, April 8, 1814, _Letters_, 1898,
ii. 408. For the story of Milo and the Oak, see Valerius Maximus,
_Factorum, Dictorumque Memorabilium_, lib. ix. cap. xii. Part II.
example 9.]

[251] {308} Sylla. [We find the germ of this stanza in the Diary of the
evening before it was written: "I mark this day! Napoleon Buonaparte has
abdicated the throne of the world. 'Excellent well.' Methinks Sylla did
better; for he revenged, and resigned in the height of his sway, red
with the slaughter of his foes--the finest instance of glorious contempt
of the rascals upon record. Dioclesian did well too--Amurath not amiss,
had he become aught except a dervise--Charles the Fifth but so so; but
Napoleon worst of all."--_Journal_, April 9, 1814, _Letters_, 1898, ii.
409.]

[252] ["Alter '_potent_ spell' to 'quickening spell:' the first (as
Polonius says) 'is a vile phrase,' and means nothing, besides being
commonplace and Rosa-Matildaish."--Letter to Murray, April 11, 1814,
_Letters_, 1899, iii. 68.]

[253] {309} [Charles V. resigned the kingdom to his son Philip, circ.
October, 1555, and the imperial crown to his brother Ferdinand, August
27, 1556, and entered the Jeronymite Monastery of St. Justus at
Placencia in Estremadura. Before his death (September 21, 1558) he
dressed himself in his shroud, was laid in his coffin, "joined in the
prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his
tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been
celebrating a real funeral."--Robertson's _Charles V._, 1798, iv. 180,
205, 254.]

[ip] {310}
_But who would rise in brightest day_
_To set without one parting ray?_--[MS.]

[iq] ----_common clay_.--[First Proof.]

[254] [Added in Proof v.]

[255] {311} [Count Albert Adam de Neipperg, born 1774, an officer in the
Austrian Army, and, 1811, Austrian envoy to the Court of Stockholm, was
presented to Marie Louise a few days after Napoleon's abdicati