ut he may have had in mind
Scott's allusion to Spenser's Una--

"Harpers have sung and poets told
That he, in fury uncontrolled,
The shaggy monarch of the wood,
Before a virgin, fair and good,
Hath pacified his savage mood."

_Marmion_, Canto II. stanza vii. line 3, _seq_.

(See Koelbing's note to _Siege of Corinth_, 1893, pp. 110-112.)]

[px] {476}
_She laid her fingers on his hand_,
_Its coldness thrilled through every bone_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[py] _As he looked on her face_----.--[MS. G.]

[pz] ----_on her bosom's swell_.--[MS. G. erased. Copy.]

[369] [Compare Shakespeare, _Macbeth_, act v. sc. 1, line 30--

"You see, her eyes are open,
Aye, but their sense is shut."

Compare, too, _Christabel_, Conclusion to Part the First (lines 292,
293)--

"With open eyes (ah, woe is me!)
Asleep, and dreaming fearfully."]

[qa] {477}
_Like a picture, that magic had charmed from its frame_,
_Lifeless but life-like, and ever the same_.
or, _Like a picture come forth from its canvas and frame_.--
[MS. G. erased.]

[qb]
_And seen_----.--[MS. G.]
----_its fleecy mail_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[370] [In the summer of 1803, Byron, then turned fifteen, though offered
a bed at Annesley, used at first to return every night to Newstead;
alleging that he was afraid of the family pictures of the Chaworths,
which he fancied "had taken a grudge to him on account of the duel, and
would come down from their frames to haunt him." Moore thinks this
passage may have been suggested by the recollection (_Life_, p. 27).
Compare _Lara_, Canto I. stanza xi. line 1, _seq_. (_vide ante_, p. 331,
note 1).]

[371] [Compare Southey's _Roderick_, Canto XXI. (ed. 1838, ix. 195)--

" ... and till the grave
Open, the gate of mercy is not closed."]

[372] {478} I have been told that the idea expressed in this and the
five following lines has been admired by those whose approbation is
valuable. I am glad of it; but it is not original--at least not mine; it
may be found much better expressed in pages 182-3-4 of the English
version of "Vathek" (I forget the precise page of the French), a work to
which I have before referred; and never recur to, or read, without a
renewal of gratification.--[The following is the passage: "'Deluded
prince!' said the Genius, addressing the Caliph ... 'This