the river, and seeing a mantle floating on the stream, he inquired what it was that appeared black; to which they answered, it was a mantle; and one of them threw stones upon it, in consequence of which it sunk. The attendants of the Pontiff then inquired from Giorgio, why he had not revealed this to the governor of the city; to which he replied, that he had seen in his time a hundred dead bodies thrown into the river at the same place, without any inquiry being made respecting them, and that he had not, therefore, considered it as a matter of any importance. The fishermen and seamen were then collected, and ordered to search the river; where, on the following evening, they found the body of the Duke, with his habit entire, and thirty ducats in his purse. He was pierced with nine wounds, one of which was in his throat,

sooner was

the others in his head, body, and limbs. No the Pontiff informed of the death of his son, and that he had been thrown, like filth, into the river, than giving way to his grief, he shut himself up in a chamber and wept bitterly. The Cardinal of Segovia, and other attendants on the Pope, went to the door, and after many hours spent in persuasions and exhortations, prevailed upon him to admit them. From the evening of Wednesday, till the following, Saturday, the Pope took no food; nor did he sleep from Thursday morning till the same hour on the ensuing day. At length, however, giving way to the entreaties of his attendants, he began to restrain his sorrow, and to consider the injury which his own health might sustain, by the further indulgence of his grief."-Roscon's Les Tenth, Vol. 1, p. 265.

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NOTES TO THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.

The Turcoman hath left his herd. [p. 116. THE life of the Turcomans is wandering and patriarchal: they dwell in tents.

Coumourgi-he whose closing scene. [p. 117. Ali Coumourgi, the favourite of three sultans, and Grand Vizier to Achmet III., after recovering Peloponnesus from the Venetians in one compaign, was mortally wounded in the next, against the Germans, at the battle of Peterwaradin (in the plain of Carlowitz), in Hungary, endeavouring to rally his guards. He died of his wounds next day. His last order was the decapitation of General Breuner, and some other German prisoners; and his last words, "Oh that I could thus serve all the Christian dogs!" a speech and act not unlike one of Caligula. He was a young man of great ambition and unbounded presumption: on being told that Prince Eugene, then opposed to him, "was a great general," he said "I shall become a greater, and at his expense."

There shrinks no ebb in that tideless sea. [p. 119.

intentional, resemblance in these twelve lines to a passage in an unpublished poem of Mr. Cole ridge, called "Christabel." It was not till after these lines were written that I heard that wild and singularly original and beautiful poem recited; and the MS. of that production I never saw till very recently, by the kindness of Mr. Coleridge himself, who, I hope, is convinced that I have not been a wilful plagiarist. The original idea undoubtedly pertains to Mr. Coleridge, whose poem has been composed above fourteen years. Let me conclude by a hope that he will not longer delay the publication of a production, of which I can only add my mite of approbation to the applause of far more coшреtent judges. ("Christabel" was published in 1816.)

There is a light cloud by the moon-
'Tis passing and will pass full soon-

If, by the time its vapoury sail.... [p. 121. I have been told that the idea expressed in these lines has been admired by those whose

approbation is valuable. I am glad of it: but original-at least not mine; it may be found much better expressed in "Vathek" a work to which I have before referred, and never recur to, or read, without a renewal of gratification.

The reader need hardly be reminded that there are no perceptible tides in the Mediterranean. And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull. [p. 120. This spectacle I have seen, such as described, beneath the wall of the Seraglio at Constantinople, in the little cavities worn by the Bosphorus in the rock, a narrow terrace of which projects between the wall and the water. I think the fact is also mentioned in Hobhouse's Tra-standard. vels. The bodies were probably those of some refractory Janizaries.

And each scalp had a single long tuft of hair. [p. 120. This tuft, or long lock, is left from a superstition that Mahomet will draw them into Paradise by it.

Was it the wind, through some hollow stone.... [p. 121. I must here acknowledge a close, though un

The horsetails are pluck'd from the ground, and the sword. [p. 122. The horsetail, fixed upon a lance, a Pacha's

And since the day, when in the strait. [p. 123.
In the naval battle at the mouth of the Dar-
danelles, between the Venetians and the
Turks.

The jackal's troop, in gather'd cry. [p. 125. I believe I have taken a poetical license to transplant the jackal from Asia. In Greece I never saw nor heard these animals; but among the ruins of Ephesus I have heard them by hundreds. They haunt ruins, and follow armies.

NOTES TO PARISINA.

It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard,

As twilight melts beneath the morn away.

[p. 126.

These fourteen lines were printed as set to music some time since, but belonged to the poem where they now appear, the greater part of which was composed prior to "Lara," and other compositions since published.

That should have won as haught a crest. [p. 128. Haught-haughty.-"Away, haught man, thou art insulting me." SHAKSPEARE, Richard II.

Her life began and closed in woe. [p. 130. "This turned out a calamitous year for the people of Ferrara, for there occurred a very tragical event in the court of their sovereign. Our annals, both printed and in manuscript, with the exception of the unpolished and negligent work of Sardi, and one other, have given the following relation of it, from which, however, are rejected many details, and especially the narrative of Bandelli, who wrote a century afterwards, and who does not accord with the cotemporary historians.

"By the above mentioned Stella dell Assassino, the Marquis, in the year 1405, had a son called Ugo, a beautiful and ingenious youth. Parisina Malatesta, second wife of Niccolo, like the generality of stepmothers, treated him with

down their cheeks, and upon their knees, implored him for mercy: adducing whatever reasons they could suggest for sparing the offenders, besides those motives of honour and decency which might persuade him to conceal from the public so scandalous a deed. But his rage made him inflexible, and, on the instant, he commanded that the sentence should be put in execution.

"It was, then, in the prisons of the castle, and exactly in those frightful dungeons which are seen at this day beneath the chamber called the Aurora, at the foot of the Lion's tower, at the top of the street Giovecca, that on the night of the twenty-first of May were beheaded, first, Ugo, and afterwards Parisina. Zoese, he that accused her, conducted the latter under his arm to the place of punishment. She, all along, fancied, that she was to be thrown into a pit, and asked at every step, whether she was yet come to the spot ? She was told that her punishment was the axe. She inquired what was become of Ugo, and received for answer, that he was already dead; at the which, sighing grievously, she exclaimed, "Now, then, I wish not myself to live;" and being come to the block, she stripped herself with her own hands of all her ornaments, and wrapping a cloth round her head, submitted to the fatal stroke which terminated the cruel scene. The same was done with Rangoni, who, together with the others, according to two calendars in the library of St. Francesco, was buried in the cemetery of that conwomen.

little kindness, to the infinite regret of the Mar-vent. Nothing else is known respecting the

quis, who regarded him with fond partiality. One day she asked leave of her husband to undertake a certain journey, to which he consented, but upon condition that Ugo should bear her company; for he hoped by these means to induce her, in the end, to lay aside the obstinate aversion which she had conceived against him. And indeed this intent was accomplished but too well, since, during the journey, she not only divested herself of all her hatred, but fell into the opposite extreme. After their return, the Marquis had no longer any occasion to renew his former reproofs. It happened one day that a servant of the Marquis, named Zoese, or, as some call him, Giorgio, passing before the apartments of Parisina, saw going out from them one of her chambermaids, all terrified and in tears. Asking the reason, she told him that her mistress, for some slight offence, had been beating her; and, giving vent to her rage, she added, that she could easily be revenged, if she chose to make known the criminal familiarity which subsisted between Parisina and her step-son. The servant took note of the words, and related them to his master. He was astounded thereat, but scarcely believing his ears, he assured himself of the fact, alas! too clearly, on the 18th of May, 1425, by looking through a hole made in the ceiling of his wife's chamber. Instantly he broke into a furious rage, and arrested both of them, together with Aldobrandino Rangoni, of Modena, her gentleman, and also, as some say, two of the women of her chamber, as abettors of this sinful act. He ordered them to be brought to a hasty trial, desiring the judges to pronounce sentence, in the accustomed forms, upon the culprits. This sentence was death. Some there were that bestirred themselves in favour of the

"The Marquis kept watch the whole of that dreadful night, and, as he was walking backwards and forwards, inquired of the Captain of the castle if Ugo was dead yet? who answered him, Yes. He then gave himself up to the most desperate lamentations, exclaiming, "Oh! that I too were dead, since I have been hurried on to resolve thus against my own Ugo!" And then gnawing with his teeth a cane which he had in his hand, he passed the rest of the night in sighs and tears, calling frequently upon his own dear Ugo. On the following day, calling to mind that it would be necessary to make public his justification, seeing that the transaction could not be kept secret, he ordered the narrative to be drawn out upon paper, and sent it to all the courts of Italy.

Poly gamme

NOTES TO THE PRISONER OF CHILLON.

NOTES TO BEРРО.

aspirate, according to the Arabesque guttural. [p. 144. St. 14. It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.

Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below. "Quæ septem dici sex tamen esse solent." OVID. His name Giuseppe, call'd more briefly, Beрро. [p. 145. St. 25. Beppo is the Joe of the Italian Joseph. The Spaniards call the person a "Cortejo." [p. 146. St. 37. "Cortejo" is pronounced "Corteho," with an

Raphael, who died in thy embrace, and vice. [p. 147. St. 46. For the received accounts of the cause of Raphael's death, see his Lives.

NOTES TO DON JUAN.

For none likes more to hear himself converse.

[p. 197. St. 45. Rispose allor' Margatte, a dirtel tosto,

lo non credo più al nero ch' all azzurro;
Ma nell cappone, o lesso, o vuogli arrosto,
E credo alcuna volta anco nel burro;
Nella cervogia, e quando io n'ho nell mosto,
E molto più nell' espro che il mangurro ;

Ma sopra tutto nel buon vino ho fede,
E credo che sia salvo chi gli erede.

That e'er by precious metal was held in.

[p. 199. St. 71. This dress is Moorish, and the bracelets and bar are worn in the manner described. The reader will perceive hereafter, that, as the mother of Haidee was of Fez, her daughter wore the garb of the country.

A like gold bar, above her instep rolld. [p. 199. St. 72. The bar of gold above the instep is a mark of sovereign rank in the women of the families of the Deys, and is worn as such by their female relatives.

[p. 199. St. 73.

Her person if allow'd at large to run. This is no exaggeration; there were four women, whom I remember to have seen, who possessed their hair in this profusion; of these, three were English, the other was a Levantine. Their hair was of that length and quantity, that when let down, it almost entirely shaded the person, so as nearly to render dress a superfluity. Of these, only one had dark hair; the Oriental's had, perhaps, the lightest colour of the four.

heart.

Soft hour! which wakes the wish and melts the [p. 204. St. 108. Era già l' ora che volge 'l disio,

A' naviganti, e 'ntenerisce il cuore;
Lo dì ch han detto a' dolci amici a dio;
E che lo nuovo peregrin' de amore
Punge, se ode squilla di lontano,

Che paja 'l giorno pianger che si muore."
DANTE'S Purgatory, C. 8.

This last line is the first of Gray's Elegy,
taken by him without acknowledgment.
Some hands unseen strew'd flowers upon his tomb.
[p. 204. St. 109.

See Suetonius for this fact.

NOTES TO CANTO IV.

A vein had burst. (p. 209. St. 59. This is no very uncommon effect of the violence of conflicting and different passions. The Doge Francis Foscari, on his deposition, in 1457,

PULCI, Morgante Maggiore, 18, 151. hearing the bell of St. Mark announce the elec