, but before the
resurrection of a single sauce-pan, the Painter countermined and the
Way-wode countermanded and sent him back to bookmaking.--[MS. D.]

[See _English Bards, etc._, lines 1033, 1034: _Poetical Works_, 1898, i.
379, _note_ 1.]

[eb] _Where was thine AEgis, Goddess_----.--[MS. D. erased]

[ec] {110} ----_which it had well behoved_.--[MS. D.]

[123] [The Athenians believed, or feigned to believe, that the marbles
themselves shrieked out in shame and agony at their removal from their
ancient shrines.]

[124] [Byron is speaking of his departure from Spain, but he is thinking
of his departure from Malta, and his half-hearted amour with Mrs.
Spencer Smith.]

[ed] {111} ----_that rosy urchin guides_.--[MS.]

[ee] _Save on that part_----.--[MS. erased.]

[ef] {112}
_From Discipline's stern law_----.--[MS.]
----_keen law_----.--[MS. D.]

[125] An additional "misery to human life!"--lying to at sunset for a
large convoy, till the sternmost pass ahead. Mem.: fine frigate, fair
wind likely to change before morning, but enough at present for ten
knots!--[MS. D.]

[eg] ----_their melting girls believe_.--[MS.]

[eh] {113}
_Meantime some rude musician's restless hand_
_Ply's the brisk instrument that sailors love_.--[MS. D. erased.]

[ei] _Through well-known straits behold the steepy shore_.--[MS.
erased.]

[126] [Compare Coleridge's reflections, in his diary for April 19, 1804,
on entering the Straits of Gibraltar: "When I first sat down, with
Europe on my left and Africa on my right, both distinctly visible, I
felt a quickening of the movements in the blood, but still felt it as a
pleasure of _amusement_ rather than of thought and elevation; and at the
same time, and gradually winning on the other, the nameless silent forms
of nature were working in me, like a tender thought in a man who is
hailed merrily by some acquaintance in his work, and answers it in the
same tone" (_Anima Poetae_, 1895, pp. 70, 71).]

[127] ["The moon is in the southern sky as the vessel passes through the
Straits; consequently, the coast of Spain is in light, that of Africa in
shadow" (_Childe Harold_, edited by H. F. Tozer, 1885, p. 232).]

[128] [Campbell, in _Gertrude of Wyoming_, Canto I. stanza ii. line 6,
speaks of "forests brown;" but, as Mr. Tozer points out, "'brown' is
Byron's usual epithet for landscape seen in moonlight." (Compare Canto
II. stanza lxx. line 3; _Parisina_, i. 10; and _Siege of