echoes to his ear_.--[MS.]

[ka] _From high and quickened into life and thought_.--[MS.]

[kb] {344}
_Though no reluctance checked his willing hand,_
_He still obeyed as others would command_.--[MS.]

[kc]
_To tune his lute and, if none else were there,_
_To fill the cup in which himself might share_.--[MS.]

[kd] {345} _Yet still existed there though still supprest_.--[ms]

[ke] _And when the slaves and pages round him told_.--[ms]

[277] {346} [Compare--

"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand,
Which must be acted, ere they may be scanned."
_Macbeth_, act iii. sc. 4, lines 139, 140.]

[kf] {347} _There lie the lover's hope--the watcher's toil_.--[MS.]

[kg] _And half-Existence melts within a grave_.--[MS.]

[278] {348} [Compare--

"Now slowly melting into day,
Vapour and mist dissolved away."

Sotheby's _Constance de Castile_, Canto III. stanza v. lines 17, 18.]

[279] [Compare the last lines of Pippa's song in Browning's _Pippa
Passes_--"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world!"]

[280] [Mr. Alexander Dyce points out the resemblance between these lines
and a passage in one of Pope's letters to Steele (July 15, 1712,
_Works_, 1754, viii. 226): "The morning after my exit the sun will rise
as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as
green."]

[kh] {349} _When Ezzelin_----.--[Ed. 1831.]

[ki] _Here in thy hall_----.--[MS.]

[281] {351} [Compare _Mysteries of Udolpho_, by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe,
1794, ii. 279: "The Count then fell back into the arms of his servants,
while Montoni held his sword over him and bade him ask his life ... his
complexion changed almost to blackness as he looked upon his fallen
adversary."]

[kj] _And turned to smite a foe already felled_.--[MS.]

[kk] _And he less calm--yet calmer than them all_.--[MS.]

[kl] {353} ----_the blind and headlong rage_.--[MS.]

[km] {354}
_The first impressions with his milder sway_
_Of dread_----.--[MS.]

[kn] _Mysterious gloom around his hall and state_.--[MS.]

[ko] {355} _The Beauty--which the first success would snatch_.--[MS.]

[kp] {356}
_A word's enough to rouse mankind to kill_
_Some factions phrase by cunning raised and spread_.--[MS.]

[kq] {357} ----_upon the battle slain_.--[Ed. 1831.]

[kr] {358} _But not endure the long protracted strife_.--[MS. erased.]

[ks] {360} _And raged the combat till_----.