n" (_Burns' Selected Poems_, ed. by J. L.
Robertson, 1889, p. 191).]

[334] [Compare letter to Hodgson, July 16, 1809: "How merrily we lives
that travellers be!"--_Letters_, 1898, i. 233.]

[335] {450} [For "capote," compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza
lii. line 7, and Byron's note (24.B.), _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 132,
181. Compare, too, letter to Mrs. Byron, November 12, 1809 (_Letters_,
1899, i. 253): "Two days ago I was nearly lost in a Turkish ship of
war.... I wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak),
and lay down on deck to wait the worst."]

[336] The last tidings recently heard of Dervish (one of the Arnauts who
followed me) state him to be in revolt upon the mountains, at the head
of some of the bands common in that country in times of trouble.

[nz] {451} _But those winged days_----.--[MS.]

[337] [Compare Kingsley's _Last Buccaneer_--

"If I might but be a sea-dove, I'd fly across the main--
To the pleasant isle of Aves, to look at it once again."]

[oa] _The kindly few who love my lay_.--[MS.]

[338] [The MS. is dated J^y (January) 31, 1815. Lady Byron's copy is
dated November 2, 1815.]

[ob] _Many a year, and many an age_.--[MS. G. Copy.]

[oc] _A marvel from her Moslem bands_.--[MS. G.]

[339] {452} [Timoleon, who had saved the life of his brother Timophanes
in battle, afterwards put him to death for aiming at the supreme power
in Corinth. Warton says that Pope once intended to write an epic poem on
the story, and that Akenside had the same design (_Works_ of Alexander
Pope, Esq., 1806, ii. 83).]

[od] _Or could the dead be raised again_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[oe]
----_through yon clear skies_
_Than tower-capt Acropolis_.--[MS. G.]

[of] _Stretched on the edge----.--[MS. G. erased.]_

[340] [Turkish holders of military fiefs.]

[og]
_The turbaned crowd of dusky hue_
_Whose march Morea's fields may rue_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[341] {453} The life of the Turcomans is wandering and patriarchal: they
dwell in tents.

[342] [Compare _The Giaour_, line 639 (_vide ante_, p. 116)--"The
deathshot hissing from afar."]

[343] {454} [Professor Kolbing admits that he is unable to say how
"Byron met with the name of Alp." I am indebted to my cousin, Miss Edith
Coleridge, for the suggestion that the name is derived from Mohammed
(Lhaz-ed-Dyn-Abou-Choudja), surnamed Alp-Arslan (Arsslan), or "Brave
Lion," the second of the Seljuk dynasty, in the eleve