wall they have _shaken_ before."--Gifford.]

[380] [Compare _The Giaour_, line 734 (_vide ante_, p. 120)--"At solemn
sound of 'Alla Hu!'" And _Don Juan_, Canto VIII. stanza viii.]

[381] ["He who first _downs_ with the red cross may crave," etc. What
vulgarism is this!--"He who _lowers_,--or _plucks down_,"
etc.--Gifford.]

[382] [The historian, George Finlay, who met and frequently conversed
with Byron at Mesalonghi, with a view to illustrating "Lord Byron's
_Siege of Corinth_," subjoins in a note the full text of "the summons
sent by the grand vizier, and the answer." (See Finlay's _Greece under
Othoman and Venetian Domination_, 1856, p. 266, note 1; and, for the
original authority, see Brue's _Journal de la Campagne_, ... _en_ 1715,
Paris, 1871, p. 18.)]

[383] {482}
["Thus against the wall they _bent_,
Thus the first were backward _sent_."

--Gifford.]

[qd] _With such volley yields like glass_.--[MS. G. erased.]

[qe] _Like the mowers ridge_----.--[MS. G. erased.]

[384] ["Such was the fall of the foremost train."--Gifford.]

[385] {483} [Compare _The Deformed Transformed_, Part I. sc. 2 ("Song of
the Soldiers")--

"Our shout shall grow gladder,
And death only be mute."]

[qf] _I have heard_----.--[MS. G.]

[386] [Compare _Macbeth_, act ii. sc. 2, line 55--

"If he do bleed,
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal."]

[387] {484} ["There stood a man," etc.--Gifford.]

[388] ["_Lurked_"--a bad word--say "_was hid_."--Gifford.]

[389] ["Outnumbered his hairs," etc.--Gifford.]

[390] ["Sons that were unborn, when _he_ dipped."--Gifford.]

[391] {485} [Bravo!--this is better than King Priam's fifty
sons.--Gifford.]

[392] In the naval battle at the mouth of the Dardanelles, between the
Venetians and Turks.

[393] [There can be no such thing; but the whole of this is poor, and
spun out.--Gifford. The solecism, if such it be, was repeated in _Marino
Faliero_, act iii. sc. I, line 38.]

[394] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza xxix. lines 5-8
(_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 125)--

"Dark Sappho! could not Verse immortal save?...
If life eternal may await the lyre."]

[395] ["Hark to the Alia Hu!" etc.--Gifford.]

[396] {486} [Gifford has erased lines 839-847.]

[qg] _Though the life of thy giving would last for ever_.--[MS. G.
Copy.]

[qh] _Where's Francesca?--my promised bride!_--[MS. G. Copy.]

[qi] {488} Here follows in