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Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. T
- 438 I wish to thank you that you have not divided My heart from all that's left it now to love-- Those who are yours and mine, who look like you, And look upon me as you looked upon me Once----but _they_ have not changed._Sar._ Nor ever will.I fain would
- 437 I can fix nothing further of my thoughts, Save that I longed for thee, and sought for thee, In all these agonies,--and woke and found thee._Myr._ So shalt thou find me ever at thy side, Here and hereafter, if the last may be.But think not of these things-
- 436 _Sal._ Is power Omnipotent o'er such a heart as his: Exert it wisely. [_Exit_ SALEMENES._Sar._ Myrrha! what, at whispers With my stern brother? I shall soon be jealous._Myr._ (_smiling_).You have cause, Sire; for on the earth there breathes not A man
- 435 _Alt._ Baal himself Ne'er fought more fiercely to win empire, than His silken son to save it: he defies All augury of foes or friends; and like The close and sultry summer's day, which bodes A twilight tempest, bursts forth in such thunder As sw
- 434 _Enter an Officer_._Officer_. Lost, Lost almost past recovery. Zames! Where Is Zames?_Myr._ Posted with the guard appointed To watch before the apartment of the women. 230 [_Exit Officer_._Myr._ (_sola_). He's gone; and told no more than that all
- 433 _Sar._ Altada--Zames--forth, and arm ye! There Is all in readiness in the armoury. 120 See that the women are bestowed in safety In the remote apartments: let a guard Be set before them, with strict charge to quit The post but with their lives--command it
- 432 _Sar._ That's true, my Myrrha; and could I convert My realm to one wide shelter for the wretched, I'd do it._Myr._ Thou'rt no G.o.d, then--not to be Able to work a will so good and general, As thy wish would imply._Sar._ And your G.o.ds, th
- 431 Away with these vain thoughts, I will be joyous-- And here comes Joy's true herald._Enter_ MYRRHA._Myr._ King! the sky Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show In forked flashes a commanding tempest.[
- 430 Let me hope better than thou augurest; At present, let us hence as best we may.Thou dost agree with me in understanding This order as a sentence?_Arb._ Why, what other Interpretation should it bear? it is The very policy of Orient monarchs-- 430 Pardon an
- 429 _Arb._ But no less we owe them; And I should blush far more to take the grantor's![16]_Bel._ Thou may'st endure whate'er thou wilt--the stars Have written otherwise._Arb._ Though they came down, And marshalled me the way in all their bright
- 428 Bestow it on Arbaces._Sar._ So I should: He never asked it._Sal._ Doubt not, he will have it, Without that hollow semblance of respect._Bel._ I know not what hath prejudiced the Prince So strongly 'gainst two subjects, than whom none Have been more z
- 427 _Bel._ (_delivering his_). My lord, behold my scimitar._Arb._ (_drawing his sword_). Take mine._Sal._ (_advancing_). I will._Arb._ But in your heart the blade-- The hilt quits not this hand.[l]_Sal._ (_drawing_). How! dost thou brave me?Tis well--this sav
- 426 _Arb._ And ever thwarted: what would you have more To make a rebel out of? A fool reigning, 100 His blood dishonoured, and himself disdained: Why, it is _his_ revenge we work for._Bel._ Could He but be brought to think so: this I doubt of._Arb._ What, if
- 425 _Sar._ Suspect!--that's a spy's office. Oh! we lose Ten thousand precious moments in vain words, And vainer fears. Within there!--ye slaves, deck The Hall of Nimrod for the evening revel; If I must make a prison of our palace, At least we'l
- 424 _Myr._ Ask of the G.o.ds thy fathers._Sar._ They cannot answer; when the priests speak for them, 'Tis for some small addition to the temple._Myr._ Look to the annals of thine Empire's founders._Sar._ They are so blotted o'er with blood, I c
- 423 _Sar._ There comes For ever something between us and what We deem our happiness: let me remove The barrier which that hesitating accent Proclaims to thine, and mine is sealed._Myr._ My Lord!-- _Sar._ My Lord--my King--Sire--Sovereign; thus it is-- For eve
- 422 _Sal._ Alas!The doom of Nineveh is sealed.--Woe--woe To the unrivalled city!_Sar._ What dost dread? 280 _Sal._ Thou art guarded by thy foes: in a few hours The tempest may break out which overwhelms thee, And thine and mine; and in another day What _is_ s
- 421 _Sal._ Our annals say not._Sar._ Then I will say for them-- That she had better woven within her palace Some twenty garments, than with twenty guards Have fled to Bactria, leaving to the ravens, And wolves, and men--the fiercer of the three, Her myriads o
- 420 _Myr._ Great King, Thou didst not say so._Sar._ But _thou_ looked'st it: I know each glance of those Ionic eyes,[d]Which said thou wouldst not leave me._Myr._ Sire! your brother---- _Sal._ His _Consort's_ brother, minion of Ionia! 40 How darest
- 419 The Works of Lord Byron.by Lord Byron.PREFACE TO THE FIFTH VOLUME.The plays and poems contained in this volume were written within the s.p.a.ce of two years--the last two years of Byron's career as a poet. But that was not all. Cantos VI.-XV. of _Don
- 418 [618] {579}[The publication of the _British Review_ was discontinued in 1825.][619] [For "Botherby," _vide ante_, _Beppo_, stanza lxxii. line 7, p.182, note 1; and with the "ex-cathedra tone" compare "that awful note of woe,"
- 417 _Lady Blueb_. Come, a truce with all tartness;--the joy of my heart Is to see Nature's triumph o'er all that is art.Wild Nature!--Grand Shakespeare!_Both_. And down Aristotle!_Lady Bluem_. Sir George[628] thinks exactly with Lady Bluebottle: And
- 416 _Lady Bluem_. Excuse me--'tis one in the "Stamps:"He is made a collector._Tra_. Collector!_Sir Rich_. How?_Miss Lil_. What? 60 _Ink_. I shall think of him oft when I buy a new hat: There his works will appear-- _Lady Bluem_. Sir, they reach
- 415 _Ink_. Very true; let us go, then, before they can come, Or else we'll be kept here an hour at their levee, On the rack of cross questions, by all the blue bevy.Hark! Zounds, they'll be on us; I know by the drone Of old Botherby's spouting
- 414 _Tra_. What?_Ink_. I perhaps may as well hold my tongue; But there's five hundred people can tell you you're wrong._Tra_. You forget Lady Lilac's as rich as a Jew._Ink_. Is it miss or the cash of mamma you pursue?_Tra_. Why, Jack, I'll
- 413 ECLOGUE THE FIRST._London.--Before the Door of a Lecture Room_._Enter_ TRACY, _meeting_ INKEL._Ink_. You're too late._Tra_. Is it over?_Ink_. Nor will be this hour.But the benches are crammed, like a garden in flower.With the pride of our belles, who
- 412 [599] {560}["The Marquis of Londonderry was cheered in the Castle-yard.""He was," says the correspondent of the _Morning Chronicle_, "the instrument of Ireland's degradation--he broke down her spirit, and prostrated, I fear,
- 411 [586] {544}[See _The Dream_, line 127, _et pa.s.sim_, _vide ante_, p. 31, _et sq._][587] [From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray, now for the first time printed.][588] {545} [There has been some misunderstanding with regard to this poem. Ac
- 410 [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 635, 636.]ARISTOMENES.[608]Canto First.1.The G.o.ds of old are silent on the sh.o.r.e.Since the great Pan expired, and through the roar Of the Ionian waters broke a dread Voice which proclaimed "the
- 409 STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA.[603]1.Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story-- The days of our Youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.[6
- 408 14.Let the poor squalid splendour thy wreck can afford, (As the bankrupt's profusion his ruin would hide) Gild over the palace, Lo! Erin, thy Lord!Kiss his foot with thy blessing--his blessings denied![iv]15.Or _if_ freedom past hope be extorted at l
- 407 Lady! in whose heroic port And Beauty, Victor even of Time, And haughty lineaments, appear Much that is awful, more that's dear-- Wherever human hearts resort _There_ must have been for thee a Court, And Thou by acclamation Queen, Where never Soverei
- 406 13.'Tis vain to struggle--let me perish young-- Live as I lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, And then, at least, my heart can ne'er be moved.June, 1819.[First published, _Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824,
- 405 1818.[First published, _Fraser's Magazine_, January, 1833, vol. vii. pp. 88-84.]THE DUEL.[583]1.'Tis fifty years, and yet their fray To us might seem but yesterday.Tis fifty years, and three to boot, Since, hand to hand, and foot to foot, And he
- 404 [_Opere Edite e Postume_ di J. Vittorelli, Ba.s.sano, 1841, p. 294.]TRANSLATION FROM VITTORELLI.ON A NUN.Sonnet composed in the name of a father, whose daughter had recently died shortly after her marriage; and addressed to the father of her who had latel
- 403 9.Out then spake old Alfaqui,[572]With his beard so white to see, "Good King! thou art justly served, Good King! this thou hast deserved.Woe is me, Alhama!10."By thee were slain, in evil hour, The Abencerrage, Granada's flower; And stranger
- 402 [560] [Southey's _Life of Wesley, and Rise and Progress of Methodism_, in two volumes octavo, was published in 1820. In a "Memento" written in a blank leaf of the first volume, Coleridge expressed his desire that his copy should be given to
- 401 [hi] _Which looked as 'twere a phantom even on earth_.--[MS. erased.][hj] _Now it seemed little, now a little bigger_.--[MS. erased.][539] {513}[The Letters of Junius have been attributed to more than fifty authors. Among the more famous are the Duke
- 400 [gu] _A_ part _of that which they held all of old_.--[MS. erased][523] {503}[George III. resisted Catholic Emanc.i.p.ation in 1795. "The more I reflect on the subject, the more I feel the danger of the proposal."--Letter to Pitt, February 6, 179
- 399 [502] [George III. died the 29th of January, 1820. "The year 1820 was an era signalized ... by the many efforts of the revolutionary spirit which at that time broke forth, like ill-suppressed fire, throughout the greater part of the South of Europe.
- 398 He had sung against all battles, and again In their high praise and glory; he had called Reviewing "the ungentle craft," and then[559]Became as base a critic as e'er crawled-- Fed, paid, and pampered by the very men By whom his muse and mor
- 397 For sometimes he like Cerberus would seem-- "Three gentlemen at once"[541] (as sagely says Good Mrs. Malaprop); then you might deem That he was not even _one_; now many rays Were flas.h.i.+ng round him; and now a thick steam Hid him from sight--
- 396 (If nations may be likened to a goose), And realised the phrase of "h.e.l.l broke loose."[529]LIX.Here crashed a st.u.r.dy oath of stout John Bull, Who d.a.m.ned away his eyes as heretofore: There Paddy brogued "By Jasus!"--"What&
- 395 "Michael!" replied the Prince of Air, "even here Before the gate of Him thou servest, must I claim my subject: and will make appear That as he was my wors.h.i.+pper in dust, So shall he be in spirit, although dear To thee and thine, because
- 394 "No," quoth the Cherub: "George the Third is dead.""And who _is_ George the Third?" replied the apostle: "_What George? what Third?_" "The King of England," said The angel. "Well! he won't find k
- 393 'Gebir, he feared the Demons, not the G.o.ds, Though them indeed his daily face adored; And was no warrior, yet the thousand lives Squandered, as stones to exercise a sling, And the tame cruelty and cold caprice-- Oh madness of mankind! addressed, ad
- 392 may be it is not my province to predicate; let him settle it with his Maker, as I must do with mine. There is something at once ludicrous and blasphemous in this arrogant scribbler of all works sitting down to deal d.a.m.nation and destruction upon his fe
- 391 NOTE C.Venetian Society and Manners."Vice without splendour, sin without relief Even from the gloss of love to smooth it o'er; But in its stead, coa.r.s.e l.u.s.ts of habitude," etc."To these attacks so frequently pointed by the govern
- 390 [480] {461} "Un Capo de' Dieci" are the words of Sanuto's Chronicle.[fy]_The gory head is rolling down the steps!_ _The head is rolling dawn the gory steps!_-- [Alternative readings. MS. M.][481] [A picture in oils of the execution of
- 389 [fq] _A madness of the heart shall rise within_.--[Alternative reading.MS. M.][467] [Compare-- "I pull in resolution."_Macbeth_, act v. sc. 5, line 42.][468] {452}[See the translation of Sanudo's narrative in Appendix, p.463.][fr]----_whom
- 388 "On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung."][ey] _Or met some unforeseen and fatal obstacle._--[Alternative reading.MS. M.][448] {430}[A translation of _Beltramo Bergamasco_, i.e. a native of the town and
- 387 "So we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright."For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And Love
- 386 "I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."_Richard III_., act v. sc. 4, lines 9, 10.][420] {392}["The equestrian statue of which I have made mention in the third act as before the church, is not ... of a Falie
- 385 Byron's "have partook" cannot come under the head of "good, sterling, genuine English"! (See letter to Murray, October 8, 1820, _Letters_, 1901, v. 89.)][396] {363}[The bells of San Marco were never rung but by order of the Doge.
- 384 "My princ.i.p.al object in addressing you was to testify my sincere respect and admiration of a man, who, for half a century, has led the literature of a great nation, and will go down to posterity as the first literary Character of his Age."You
- 383 "Justice hath dealt upon the mighty Traitor!"[_The gates are opened; the populace rush in towards the The foremost of them exclaims to those behind,_ "The gory head rolls down the Giants' Steps!"[fy][481][_The curtain falls_.[482]
- 382 _Doge_. And yet I find a comfort in The thought, that these things are the work of Fate; For I would rather yield to G.o.ds than men, Or cling to any creed of destiny, Rather than deem these mortals, most of whom[fr]I know to be as worthless as the dust,
- 381 Thy suing to these men were but the bleating Of the lamb to the butcher, or the cry Of seamen to the surge: I would not take A life eternal, granted at the hands Of wretches, from whose monstrous villanies I sought to free the groaning nations!_Michel Ste
- 380 _Doge_. A spark creates the flame--'tis the last drop Which makes the cup run o'er, and mine was full Already: you oppressed the Prince and people; I would have freed both, and have failed in both: The price of such success would have been glory
- 379 _Cal_. And on this testimony would he perish?_Ben_. So your confession be detailed and full, 80 He will stand here in peril of his life._Cal_. Then look well to thy proud self, President!For by the Eternity which yawns before me, I swear that _thou_, and
- 378 _1st Sig_. Lords, our orders Are to keep guard on both in separate chambers, Until the Council call ye to your trial._Doge_. Our trial! will they keep their mockery up Even to the last? but let them deal upon us, As we had dealt on them, but with less pom
- 377 _Doge_. Come hither, my Bertuccio--one embrace; Speed, for the day grows broader; send me soon A messenger to tell me how all goes When you rejoin our troops, and then sound--sound 130 The storm-bell from St. Mark's![et][_Exit_ BERTUCCIO FALIERO._Dog
- 376 Within the breast which trusted to his truth.Lioni. And who will strike the steel to mine?_Ber_. Not I; I could have wound my soul up to all things Save this. _Thou_ must not die! and think how dear Thy life is, when I risk so many lives, Nay, more, the L
- 375 _Lioni_. 'Tis a strange hour, and a suspicious bearing! 120 And yet there is slight peril: 'tis not in Their houses n.o.ble men are struck at; still, Although I know not that I have a foe In Venice, 'twill be wise to use some caution.Admit
- 374 Till n.o.bler game is quarried: his offence Was a mere ebullition of the vice, The general corruption generated By the foul Aristocracy: he could not-- He dared not in more honourable days Have risked it. I have merged all private wrath Against him in the
- 373 Without its virtues--temperance and valour.The Lords of Lacedaemon were true soldiers,[ds]But ours are Sybarites, while we are Helots, 160 Of whom I am the lowest, most enslaved; Although dressed out to head a pageant, as The Greeks of yore made drunk the
- 372 _I. Ber_. Let us away--hark--the Hour strikes._Doge_. On--on-- It is our knell, or that of Venice.--On._I. Ber_. Say rather, 'tis her Freedom's rising peal 120 Of Triumph. This way--we are near the place.[_Exeunt_.SCENE II.--_The House where the
- 371 _Cal_. I've noted most; and caused the other chiefs To use like caution in their companies.As far as I have seen, we are enough 140 To make the enterprise secure, if 'tis Commenced to-morrow; but, till 'tis begun, Each hour is pregnant with
- 370 Joy's recollection is no longer joy, While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still._Ang_. At least, whate'er may urge, let me implore That you will take some little pause of rest: Your sleep for many nights has been so turbid, That it had been re
- 369 Is't nothing to have brought into contempt A Prince before his people? to have failed In the respect accorded by Mankind To youth in woman, and old age in man?To virtue in your s.e.x, and dignity In ours?--But let them look to it who have saved him._
- 368 _Mar_. But previous to this marriage, had your heart Ne'er beat for any of the n.o.ble youth, Such as in years had been more meet to match Beauty like yours? or, since, have you ne'er seen 120 One, who, if your fair hand were still to give, Migh
- 367 _Doge_. Wretch! darest thou name my son? He died in arms At Sapienza[398] for this faithless state.Oh! that he were alive, and I in ashes!Or that he were alive ere I be ashes!I should not need the dubious aid of strangers. 560 _I. Ber_. Not one of all tho
- 366 _Doge_. You overrate my power, which is a pageant.This Cap is not the Monarch's crown; these robes Might move compa.s.sion, like a beggar's rags; Nay, more, a beggar's are his own, and these But lent to the poor puppet, who must play Its pa
- 365 _Doge_. I'm unwell-- I can see no one, not even a patrician-- Let him refer his business to the Council. 290 _Vin_. My Lord, I will deliver your reply; It cannot much import--he's a plebeian, The master of a galley, I believe._Doge_. How! did yo
- 364 _Doge_. Venice' Duke!Who now is Duke in Venice? let me see him, That he may do me right._Ber. F._ If you forget Your office, and its dignity and duty.Remember that of man, and curb this pa.s.sion.The Duke of Venice---- _Doge_ (_interrupting him_). Th
- 363 _Pie_. With struggling patience.[cw]Placed at the Ducal table, covered o'er With all the apparel of the state--pet.i.tions, Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports,-- He sits as rapt in duty; but whene'er[cx] 10 He hears the jarring of a
- 362 Byron was the first to perceive that the story of Marino Faliero was a drama "ready to hand;" but he has had many followers, if not imitators or rivals."_Marino Faliero_, tragedie en cinq actes," by Casimir Jean Francois Delavigne, was
- 361 line 4: Love, which too soon the soft heart apprehends, Seized him for the fair form, the which was there Torn from me, and even yet the mode offends.line 8: Remits, seized him for me with joy so strong-- line 12: These were the words then uttered-- Since
- 360 To be thus kissed by such devoted lover,[cs]He, who from me can be divided ne'er, Kissed my mouth, trembling in the act all over: 40 Accursed was the book and he who wrote![356]That day no further leaf we did uncover.'While thus one Spirit told
- 359 "In principio era il Verbo appresso a Dio; Ed era Iddio il Verbo, e 'l Verbo lui: Quest' era nel principio, al parer mio; E nulla si pu far sanza costui: Per, giusto Signor benigno e pio, Mandami solo un de gli angeli tui, Che m'accomp
- 358 The Abbot said, "The steeple may do well, But for the bells, you've broken them, I wot."Morgante answered, "Let them pay in h.e.l.l The penalty who lie dead in yon grot;"And hoisting up the horse from where he fell, He said, "
- 357 LIV."So that all persons may be sure and certain That they are dead, and have no further fear To wander solitary this desert in, And that they may perceive my spirit clear By the Lord's grace, who hath withdrawn the curtain Of darkness, making H
- 356 The giant his astonishment betrayed, And turned about, and stopped his journey on, And then he stooped to pick up a great stone.x.x.xV.Orlando had Cortana bare in hand; To split the head in twain was what he schemed: Cortana clave the skull like a true br
- 355 XIV."If thou rememberest being in Gascony, When there advanced the nations out of Spain The Christian cause had suffered shamefully, Had not his valour driven them back again.Best speak the truth when there's a reason why: Know then, oh Emperor!
- 354 OF PULCI.INTRODUCTION TO THE _MORGANTE MAGGIORE_.It is possible that Byron began his translation of the First Canto of Pulci's _Morgante Maggiore_ (so called to distinguish the entire poem of twenty-eight cantos from the lesser _Morgante_ [or, to coi
- 353 [317] [Compare-- "Thy G.o.dlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness ...But baffled as thou wert from high ...Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals."_Prometheus_, iii. lines 35, _seq_.; _vide ant
- 352 Gothard in 1664, and in 1675-6 commanded on the Rhine, and out-generalled Turenne and the Prince de Conde][302] Columbus, Americus Vespusius, Sebastian Cabot.[Christopher Columbus (circ. 1430-1506), a Genoese, discovered mainland of America, 1498; Amerigo
- 351 [bw] {248}_Star over star_----.--[MS. Alternative reading.][288]"Che sol per le belle opre Che sono in cielo, il sole e l'altre stelle, Dentro da lor _si crede il Paradiso:_ Cos se guardi fiso Pensar ben dei, che ogni terren piacere.[Si trova in
- 350 Thus trammelled, thus condemned to Flattery's trebles, He toils through all, still trembling to be wrong: For fear some n.o.ble thoughts, like heavenly rebels, Should rise up in high treason to his brain, He sings, as the Athenian spoke, with pebbles
- 349 Thou, in the pride of Beauty and of Youth, Spakest; and for thee to speak and be obeyed Are one; but only in the sunny South Such sounds are uttered, and such charms displayed, So sweet a language from so fair a mouth--[278]Ah! to what effort would it not
- 348 Sonnet, "No more my visionary soul shall dwell," by S. T. Coleridge, attributed by Southey to Favell.--_Letters of S. T. Coleridge,_ 1895, i.83; Southey's _Life and Correspondence,_ 1849, i. 224.][268] {226}[Compare _Werner_, iii. 3-- "
- 347 Even music followed her light feet. 830 But those she called were not awake, And she went forth; but, ere she pa.s.sed, Another look on me she cast, Another sign she made, to say, That I had nought to fear, that all Were near, at my command or call, And s
- 346 X."Away!--away!--My breath was gone, I saw not where he hurried on: 'Twas scarcely yet the break of day, And on he foamed--away!--away!The last of human sounds which rose, As I was darted from my foes, 380 Was the wild shout of savage laughter,
- 345 Such was Mazeppa, a man destined to pa.s.s through the crowded scenes of history, and to take his stand among the greater heroes of romance. His deeds of daring, his intrigues and his treachery, have been and still are sung by the wandering minstrels of t
- 344 ODE ON VENICE[234]I.Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea!If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do?--an
- 343 [208] {168}["The general state of morals here is much the same as in the Doges' time; a woman is virtuous (according to the code) who limits herself to her husband and one lover; those who have two, three, or more, are a little wild; but it is o
- 342 His wife received, the Patriarch re-baptised him, (He made the Church a present, by the way;) He then threw off the garments which disguised him, And borrowed the Count's smallclothes for a day: His friends the more for his long absence prized him, F
- 341 No Chemistry for them unfolds her gases, No Metaphysics are let loose in lectures, No Circulating Library ama.s.ses Religious novels, moral tales, and strictures Upon the living manners, as they pa.s.s us; No Exhibition glares with annual pictures; They s
- 340 LVII.Laura, when dressed, was (as I sang before) A pretty woman as was ever seen, Fresh as the Angel o'er a new inn door, Or frontispiece of a new Magazine,[224]With all the fas.h.i.+ons which the last month wore, Coloured, and silver paper leaved be
- 339 x.x.xVI.Besides, within the Alps, to every woman, (Although, G.o.d knows, it is a grievous sin,) 'Tis, I may say, permitted to have _two_ men; I can't tell who first brought the custom in, But "Cavalier Serventes" are quite common, And