that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality."]

[413] ["Euganeis istis in collibus ... domum parvam sed delectabilem et
honestam struxi ... hic quanquam aeger corpore, tranquillus animo frater
dego, sine tumultibus, sine erroribus, sine curis, legens semper et
scribens, Deum laudans."--Petrarca, _Epistolae Seniles_, xiv. 6 (_Opera_,
Basileae, 1581, p. 938).

See, too, the notes to _Arqua_ (Rogers's _Italy: Poems_, 1852, ii.
105-109), which record the pilgrimage of other poets, Boccaccio and
Alfieri, to the great laureate's tomb; and compare with Byron's stanzas
the whole of that exquisite cameo, delicate and yet durable as if graved
on chalcedony.]

[me] {353} _Society's the school where taught to live._--[MS. M.
erased.]

[mf] ----_the soul with God must strive_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[414] The struggle is to the full as likely to be with demons as with
our better thoughts. Satan chose the wilderness for the temptation of
our Saviour. And our unsullied John Locke preferred the presence of a
child to complete solitude.

["He always chose to have company with him, if it were only a child; for
he loved children, and took pleasure in talking with those that had been
well trained" (_Life of John Locke_, by H. R. Fox-Bourne, ii. 537). Lady
Masham's daughter Esther, and "his wife" Betty Clarke, aged eleven
years, were among his child-friends.]

[mg] {354} _Which dies not nor can ever pass away_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[mh] _The tomb a hell--and life one universal gloom_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[415] [Byron passed a single day at Ferrara in April, 1817; went over
the castle, cell, etc., and a few days after wrote _The Lament of
Tasso_, the manuscript of which is dated April 20, 1817. The Fourth
Canto of _Childe Harold_ was not begun till the end of June in the same
year.]

[416] [Of the ancient family of Este, Marquesses of Tuscany, Azzo V. was
the first who obtained power in Ferrara in the twelfth century. A remote
descendant, Nicolo III. (b. 1384, d. 1441), founded the University of
Parma. He married for his second wife Parisina Malatesta (the heroine of
Byron's _Parisina_, published February, 1816), who was beheaded for
adultery in 1425. His three sons, Lionel (d. 1450), the friend of Poggio
Bracciolini; Borso (d. 1471), who established printing in his states;
and Ercolo (d. 1505), the friend of Boiardo,--were all patrons of
letters and fostere