is Appendix in a letter to Murray, dated Nov.
11, 1852, in which Borrow expresses his intention of 'adding some notes'
to the present work. The result is this extraordinary 'Malebolgia,' as
Professor Knapp terms it, into which Borrow has thrust all those who had
incurred his ill-will, even for the most trivial of reasons. His enmity
with Rome dates from his Spanish experiences as colporteur of the Bible
Society in 1838 and 1839. 'Mr. Flamson' is placed in the pillory,
because he had offended Borrow by carrying a railway line through his
Oulton grounds; and Scott, apparently for no better reason than his
neglect to acknowledge a presentation copy of the 'Romantic Ballads.'
The 'Lord-Lieutenant' experiences Borrow's resentment because he did not
see his way to making 'Lavengro' a magistrate; and the 'Old Radical' is
gibbeted because he obtained an official position which Borrow desired
for himself.

{314a} Twenty. George Borrow was born July, 1803, and his father died
February, 1824.

{314b} Borrovian for 'gypsydom.'

{321a} 'Canning (1827),' (Kn.).

{321b} _Ibid._

{321c} 'Viscount Goderich' (Kn.).

{322} Little Father (Russian).

{323} The full text and translation of this pointless little song are
given in the 'Romano Lavo-lil,' pp. 200, 201.

{326} This was written in 1854. (G.B.)

{327} An obscene oath. (G.B.)

{328} See 'Muses' Library,' pp. 86, 87. London, 1738 (G. B.).
Reprinted from the original edition in the Early English Text Society
(1870).

{329} Genteel with them seems to be synonymous with Gentile and Gentoo;
if so, the manner in which it has been applied for ages ceases to
surprise, for genteel is heathenish. Ideas of barbaric pearl and gold,
glittering armour, plumes, tortures, blood-shedding, and lust, should
always be connected with it. Wace, in his grand Norman poem, calls the
Baron genteel:

'La furent li gentil Baron,' etc.

And he certainly could not have applied the word better than to the
strong Norman thief, aimed cap-a-pie, without one particle of ruth or
generosity; for a person to be a pink of gentility, that is heathenism,
should have no such feelings; and, indeed, the admirers of gentility
seldom or never associate any such feelings with it. It was from the
Norman, the worst of all robbers and miscreants, who built strong
castles, garrisoned them with devils, and tore out poor wretches' eyes,
as the Saxon Chronicle says, that the English got their