not to gaze on the heavenly light_--
_But if she sits in her garden bower_,
_'Tis not for the sake of its blowing flower_.--
[_Nathan_, 1815, 1829.]

[qz] {508} _There winds a step_----.--[_Nathan_, 1815, 1829.]

[415] {509} [Leigh Hunt, in his _Autobiography_ (1860, p. 252), says, "I
had the pleasure of supplying my friendly critic, Lord Byron, with a
point for his _Parisina_ (the incident of the heroine talking in her
sleep)."

Putting Lady Macbeth out of the question, the situation may be traced to
a passage in Henry Mackenzie's _Julia de Roubigne_ (1777, ii. 101:
"Montauban to Segarva," Letter xxxv.):--

"I was last night abroad at supper; Julia was a-bed before my
return. I found her lute lying on the table, and a music-book open
by it. I could perceive the marks of tears shed on the paper, and
the air was such as might encourage their falling. Sleep, however,
had overcome her sadness, and she did not awake when I opened the
curtain to look on her. When I had stood some moments, I heard her
sigh strongly through her sleep, and presently she muttered some
words, I know not of what import. I had sometimes heard her do so
before, without regarding it much; but there was something that
roused my attention now. I listened; she sighed again, and again
spoke a few broken words. At last I heard her plainly pronounce the
name Savillon two or three times, and each time it was accompanied
with sighs so deep that her heart seemed bursting as it heaved
then."]

[ra] {511} ----_Medora's_----.--[Copy erased.]

[416] [Compare _Christabel_, Part II. lines 408, 409--

"Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth."]

[417] {513} [Compare the famous eulogy of Marie Antoinette, in Burke's
_Reflections on the Revolution in France, in a Letter intended to have
been sent to a Gentleman in Paris_, London, 1790, pp. 112, 113--

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of
France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles.... Little did I dream
... that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her in
a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of
cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from
their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with
insult."]

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