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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present
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
- 601 x.x.xII.A band of children, round a snow-white ram,[180]There wreathe his venerable horns with flowers; While peaceful as if still an unweaned lamb, The patriarch of the flock all gently cowers His sober head, majestically tame, Or eats from out the palm,
- 602 But something of the spirit of old Greece Flashed o'er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward to the Golden Fleece His predecessors in the Colchian days; 'T is true he had no ardent love for peace-- Alas! his country showed no path to pr
- 603 And now they were diverted by their suite, Dwarfs, dancing girls, black eunuchs, and a poet, Which made their new establishment complete; The last was of great fame, and liked to show it; His verses rarely wanted their due feet-- And for his theme--he sel
- 604 We will not think of themes like these!It made Anacreon's song divine: He served--but served Polycrates--[200]A Tyrant; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen.12.The Tyrant of the Chersonese Was Freedom's best and bravest frie
- 605 CI.T' our tale.--The feast was over, the slaves gone, The dwarfs and dancing girls had all retired; The Arab lore and Poet's song were done, And every sound of revelry expired; The lady and her lover, left alone, The rosy flood of Twilight'
- 606 _Yet for all that don't stay away too long,_ _A sofa, like a bed, may come by wrong_.--[MS.]_I've known the friend betrayed_----.--[MS. D.]{151}[178] [The Pyrrhic war-dance represented "by rapid movements of the body, the way in which missi
- 607 {168}[193] [_Vide St. August. Epist._, x.x.xvi., cap. xiv., "Ille [Ambrosius, Mediolanensis Episcopus] adjecit; Quando hic sum, non jejuno sabbato; quando Romae sum, jejuno sabbato."--Migne's _Patrologiae Cursus_, 1845, x.x.xiii. 151.][cx]
- 608 [221] [In his "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface," to his "Poems" of 1815, Wordsworth, commenting on a pa.s.sage on Night in Dryden's _Indian Emperor_, says, "Dryden's lines are vague, bombastic, and senseless....The v
- 609 VII.How I have treated it, I do not know; Perhaps no better than _they_ have treated me, Who have imputed such designs as show Not what they saw, but what they wished to see: But if it gives them pleasure, be it so; This is a liberal age, and thoughts are
- 610 XXIX.Now pillowed cheek to cheek, in loving sleep, Haidee and Juan their siesta took, A gentle slumber, but it was not deep, For ever and anon a something shook Juan, and shuddering o'er his frame would creep; And Haidee's sweet lips murmured li
- 611 The world is full of strange vicissitudes, And here was one exceedingly unpleasant: A gentleman so rich in the world's goods, Handsome and young, enjoying all the present,[dt]Just at the very time when he least broods On such a thing, is suddenly to
- 612 LXXIII.But many a Greek maid in a loving song Sighs o'er her name; and many an islander With her Sire's story makes the night less long; Valour was his, and Beauty dwelt with her: If she loved rashly, her life paid for wrong-- A heavy price must
- 613 No matter; we should ne'er too much inquire, But facts are facts: no Knight could be more true, And firmer faith no Ladye-love desire; We will omit the proofs, save one or two: 'T is said no one in hand "can hold a fire By thought of frosty
- 614 But for the destiny of this young troop, How some were bought by Pachas, some by Jews, How some to burdens were obliged to stoop, And others rose to the command of crews As renegadoes; while in hapless group, Hoping no very old Vizier might choose, The fe
- 615 [dv]_Beauty and Pa.s.sion were the natural dower_ _Of Haidee's mother, but her climate's force_ _Lay at her heart, though sleeping at the source_.or, _But in her large eye lay deep Pa.s.sion's force_, _Like to a lion sleeping by a source_.o
- 616 [ej] _Protects his tomb, but greater care is paid_.--[MS.]{213}[ek]_With human ordure is it now defiled_, _As if the peasant's scorn this mode invented_ _To show his loathing of the thing he soiled_.--[MS.][el] _Those sufferings once reserved for h.e
- 617 IX.Were things to shake a Stoic; ne'ertheless, Upon the whole his carriage was serene: His figure, and the splendour of his dress, Of which some gilded remnants still were seen, Drew all eyes on him, giving them to guess He was above the vulgar by hi
- 618 At last they settled into simple grumbling, And pulling out reluctant purses, and Turning each piece of silver o'er, and tumbling Some down, and weighing others in their hand, And by mistake sequins[276] with paras jumbling, Until the sum was accurat
- 619 Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow More tender, as we every day behold, Than that all-softening, overpowering knell, The Tocsin of the Soul--the dinner-bell.L.Turkey contains no bells, and yet men dine; And Juan and his friend, albeit they heard
- 620 LXXII."Cut off a thousand heads, before----"--"Now, pray,"Replied the other, "do not interrupt: You put me out in what I had to say.Sir!--as I said, as soon as I have supped, I shall perpend if your proposal may Be such as I can p
- 621 Before they entered, Baba paused to hint To Juan some slight lessons as his guide: "If you could just contrive," he said, "to stint That somewhat manly majesty of stride, 'T would be as well, and--(though there's not much in '
- 622 CXV.His youth and features favoured the disguise, And should you ask how she, a Sultan's bride, Could risk or compa.s.s such strange phantasies, This I must leave sultanas to decide: Emperors are only husbands in wives' eyes, And kings and conso
- 623 Cx.x.xVI.A vulgar tempest 't were to a typhoon To match a common fury with her rage, And yet she did not want to reach the moon,[309]Like moderate Hotspur on the immortal page;[fr]Her anger pitched into a lower tune, Perhaps the fault of her soft s.e
- 624 Her comrades, also, thought themselves undone: Oh! Mahomet! that his Majesty should take Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one Of them his lips imperial ever spake!There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to gi
- 625 "In marble-paved pavilion, where a spring Of living water from the centre rose, Whose bubbling did a genial freshness fling, And soft voluptuous couches breathed repose, Ali reclined, a man of war and woes," etc.][288] [A reminiscence of Newstea
- 626 {250}[fk] _The very women half forgave her face_.--[MS, Erased.][fl] _Had his instructions--where and how to deal_.--[MS.][fm] _And husbands now and then are mystified_.--[MS.]{251}[306] [Narrow javelins, once known as archegays--the a.s.segais of Zulu wa
- 627 PREFACE TO CANTOS VI., VII., AND VIII.THE details of the siege of Ismail in two of the following cantos (_i.e._ the seventh and eighth) are taken from a French Work, ent.i.tled _Histoire de la Nouvelle Russie._[319] Some of the incidents attributed to Don
- 628 Are apt to carry things with a high hand, And take, what Kings call "an imposing att.i.tude;"And for their rights connubial make a stand, When their liege husbands treat them with ingrat.i.tude; And as four wives must have quadruple claims, The
- 629 x.x.xI.Whether she was a "Mother," I know not, Or whether they were "Maids" who called her Mother; But this is her Seraglio t.i.tle, got I know not how, but good as any other; So Cantemir[343] can tell you, or De Tott:[344]Her office w
- 630 LIII.But she was a soft landscape of mild earth, Where all was harmony, and calm, and quiet, Luxuriant, budding; cheerful without mirth, Which, if not happiness, is much more nigh it Than are your mighty pa.s.sions and so forth, Which, some call "the
- 631 Could not at first expound what was amiss.LXXV.At length she said, that in a slumber sound She dreamed a dream, of walking in a wood-- A "wood obscure," like that where Dante found[354]Himself in at the age when all grow good;[gz]Life's hal
- 632 But as it was, his Highness had to hold His daily council upon ways and means How to encounter with this martial scold, This modern Amazon and Queen of queans; And the perplexity could not be told Of all the pillars of the State, which leans Sometimes a l
- 633 CXX.I leave them for the present with good wishes, Though doubts of their well doing, to arrange Another part of History; for the dishes Of this our banquet we must sometimes change; And trusting Juan may escape the fishes, (Although his situation now see
- 634 {277}[342] The ladies of the Seraglio.[343] [Demetrius Cantemir, hospodar of Moldavia. His work, the _History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire_, was translated into English by N. Tyndal, 1734. He died in 1723.][344] [Baron de Tott, in his _Mem
- 635 III.They accuse me--_Me_--the present writer of The present poem--of--I know not what--A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human power and virtue, and all that;[365]And this they say in language rather rough.Good G.o.d! I wonder what they would be at!I
- 636 XXII.Then there were Frenchmen, gallant, young, and gay; But I'm too great a patriot to record Their Gallic names upon a glorious day; I'd rather tell ten lies than say a word Of truth;--such truths are treason; they betray Their country; and as
- 637 (Or _beaten_, if you insist on grammar, though I never think about it in a heat,) But here I say the Turks were much mistaken, Who hating hogs, yet wished to save their bacon.XLIII.For, on the sixteenth, at full gallop, drew In sight two hors.e.m.e.n, who
- 638 Be unimpeded by the proudest mosque.LXIV."So now, my lads, for Glory!"--Here he turned And drilled away in the most cla.s.sic Russian, Until each high heroic bosom burned For cash and conquest, as if from a cus.h.i.+on A preacher had held forth
- 639 At least _he feels it_, and some say he _sees_, Because he runs before it like a pig; Or, if that simple sentence should displease, Say, that he scuds before it like a brig, A schooner, or--but it is time to ease This Canto, ere my Muse perceives fatigue.
- 640 {311}[387] ["Le meme esprit fit manquer l'effet de trois brulots; on calcula mal la distance; on se pressa d'allumer la meche, ils brulerent au milieu du fleuve, et quoiqu'il fut six heures du matin, les Turcs, encore couches, n'en prirent aucun ombr
- 641 {327}[hw]_As a brook's stream to cope with Ocean's flood shed_ _But still we moderns equal you in bloodshed_.--[MS. erased.]{328}[hx]_As in a General's letter when well whacked_ _Whatever deeds be done I will relate 'em,_ _With some small variations i
- 642 And therefore we must give the greater number To the Gazette--which doubtless fairly dealt By the deceased, who lie in famous slumber In ditches, fields, or wheresoe'er they felt Their clay for the last time their souls enc.u.mber;-- Thrice happy he whos
- 643 To Jack, howe'er, this gave but slight concern: His soul (like galvanism upon the dead) Acted upon the living as on wire, And led them back into the heaviest fire.XLII.Egad! they found the second time what they The first time thought quite terrible enoug
- 644 LXIV.'T is true he shrank from men even of his nation, When they built up unto his darling trees,-- He moved some hundred miles off, for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease; The inconvenience of civilisation Is, that you neither can be
- 645 However this may be, 't is pretty sure The Russian officer for life was lamed, For the Turk's teeth stuck faster than a skewer, And left him 'midst the invalid and maimed: The regimental surgeon could not cure His patient, and, perhaps, was to be blame
- 646 CVIII.And spite of Johnson and of Juan, who Expended all their Eastern phraseology In begging him, for G.o.d's sake, just to show So much less fight as might form an apology For _them_ in saving such a desperate foe-- He hewed away, like Doctors of Theol
- 647 Much did they slay, more plunder, and no less Might here and there occur some violation In the other line;--but not to such excess As when the French, that dissipated nation, Take towns by storm: no causes can I guess, Except cold weather and commiseratio
- 648 [In the _London Gazette Extraordinary_ of June 22, 1815, Captain Grove, 1st Guards, is among the list of killed. In the supplement to the _London Gazette_, published July 3, 1815, the mistake was corrected, and the entry runs, "1st Guards, 3d Batt. Lieut
- 649 Platow et d'Orlow ..."--_Ibid._, p. 213.][452] [" ... la premiere partie, devant se joindre a la gauche du general a.r.s.eniew, fut foudroyee par le feu des batteries, et parvint neanmoins au haut du rempart."--_Ibid._, p. 213.][453] ["Les Turcs la l
- 650 CANTO THE NINTH.I.[476]Oh, Wellington! (or "Villainton"[477]--for Fame[it]Sounds the heroic syllables both ways; France could not even conquer your great name, But punned it down to this facetious phrase-- Beating or beaten she will laugh the same,) You
- 651 "But Heaven," as Ca.s.sio says, "is above all--[491]No more of this, then, let us pray!" We have Souls to save, since Eve's slip and Adam's fall, Which tumbled all mankind into the grave, Besides fish, beasts, and birds. "The sparrow's fall Is spe
- 652 x.x.xIX.Think if then George the Fourth should be dug up![503]How the new worldlings of the then new East Will wonder where such animals could sup!(For they themselves will be but of the least: Even worlds miscarry, when too oft they pup, And every new cr
- 653 Great joy was hers, or rather joys: the first Was a ta'en city, thirty thousand slain: Glory and triumph o'er her aspect burst, As an East Indian sunrise on the main:-- These quenched a moment her Ambition's thirst-- So Arab deserts drink in Summer's
- 654 Lx.x.xI.Love had made Catherine make each lover's fortune, Unlike our own half-chaste Elizabeth, Whose avarice all disburs.e.m.e.nts did importune, If History, the grand liar, ever saith The truth; and though grief her old age might shorten, Because she
- 655 {381}[495] [See his "Correspondance avec L'Imperatrice de Russie,"_Oeuvres Completes_ de Voltaire, 1836, x. 393-477. M. Waliszewski, in his _Story of a Throne_, 1895, i. 224, has gathered a handful of these flowers of speech: "She is the chief person
- 656 {395}[518]["Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No! make me mistress to the man I love."Pope, _Eloisa to Abelard_, lines 87, 88.][jn]_O'er whom an Empress her Crown-jewels scattering_ _Was wed with something better than a ring_.--[MS. erased.
- 657 XIII.This were the worst desertion:--renegadoes, Even shuffling Southey, that incarnate lie,[jx]Would scarcely join again the "reformadoes,"[530]Whom he forsook to fill the Laureate's sty; And honest men from Iceland to Barbadoes, Whether in Caledon or
- 658 Or the ear-trumpet of my good old aunt,[541]Who, though her spectacles at last grew dim, Drew quiet consolation through its hint, When she no more could read the pious print.x.x.xV.She was no Hypocrite at least, poor soul, But went to heaven in as sincere
- 659 'T was strange enough she should retain the impression Through such a scene of change, and dread, and slaughter; But though three Bishops told her the transgression, She showed a great dislike to holy water; She also had no pa.s.sion for confession; Perh
- 660 On! on! through meadows, managed like a garden, A paradise of hops and high production; For, after years of travel by a bard in Countries of greater heat, but lesser suction, A green field is a sight which makes him pardon The absence of that more sublime
- 661 [See for ill.u.s.tration of the Brig o' Balgownie, with its single Gothic arch, _Letters_, 1901 [L.P.], v. 406. ]{406}[537]["Land of brown heath and s.h.a.ggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," etc._Lay of the Last Minstrel_, Canto VI. stanza i
- 662 [556] [See _The Prince_ (_Il Principe_), chap. xvii., by Niccol Machiavelli, translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1897, p. 121: "But above all [a Prince] must abstain from the property of others. For men will sooner forget the death of their father than th
- 663 Oh! for a gla.s.s of _max_![567] We've missed our booty; Let me die where I am!" And as the fuel Of Life shrunk in his heart, and thick and sooty The drops fell from his death-wound, and he drew ill His breath,--he from his swelling throat untied A kerc
- 664 And, after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade; and I defy[kr]Historians--heroes--lawyers--priests, to put A fact without some leaven of a lie.The very shadow of true Truth would shut Up annals--revelations--poesy, And prophecy--except
- 665 Who shoes the glorious animal with stilts, A modern Ancient Pistol--"by these hilts!"[588]LVIII.Still he excels that artificial hard Labourer in the same vineyard, though the vine Yields him but vinegar for his reward.-- That neutralised dull Dorus of t
- 666 LXXVII.Where is Napoleon the Grand? G.o.d knows!Where little Castlereagh? The devil can tell!Where Grattan, Curran, Sheridan--all those Who bound the Bar or Senate in their spell?Where is the unhappy Queen, with all her woes?And where the Daughter, whom t
- 667 [568] [According to the _Vocabulary of the Flash Language_, compiled by James Hardy Vaux, in 1812, and published at the end of his Memoirs, 1819, ii. 149-227, a kiddy, or "flash-kiddy," is a thief of the lower orders, who, when he is _breeched_ by a cou
- 668 {445}[589] [Stanza lviii. was first published in 1837. The reference is to Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868). Byron was under the impression that Milman had influenced Murray against continuing the publication of _Don Juan_. Added to this surmise, was the mis
- 669 III.O Gold! Why call we misers miserable?[614]Theirs is the pleasure that can never pall; Theirs is the best bower anchor, the chain cable Which holds fast other pleasures great and small.Ye who but see the saving man at table, And scorn his temperate boa
- 670 XXIII.And now to business.--O my gentle Juan!Thou art in London--in that pleasant place, Where every kind of mischief's daily brewing, Which can await warm Youth in its wild race.'T is true, that thy career is not a new one; Thou art no novice in the he
- 671 XLIV.Moreover I've remarked (and I was once A slight observer in a modest way), And so may every one except a dunce, That ladies in their youth a little gay, Besides their knowledge of the World, and sense Of the sad consequence of going astray, Are wise
- 672 Then there's the vulgar trick of those d----d damages!A verdict--grievous foe to those who cause it!-- Forms a sad climax to romantic homages; Besides those soothing speeches of the pleaders, And evidences which regale all readers.LXVI.But they who blund
- 673 But what, and where, with whom, and when, and why, Is not to be put hastily together; And as my object is Morality (Whatever people say), I don't know whether I'll leave a single reader's eyelid dry, But harrow up his feelings till they wither, And hew
- 674 [635] ["Enfin partout la bonne societe regle tout."--Voltaire.]{471}[636] ["This game originated, I believe, in Germany.... It is called the game of the _goose_, because at every fourth and fifth compartment of the table in succession a _goose_ is depi
- 675 The landed and the monied speculation?The joys of mutual hate to keep them warm, Instead of Love, that mere hallucination?Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.VII.Rough Johnson, the great moralist, profe
- 676 'T is true, I might have chosen Piccadilly,[663]A place where peccadillos are unknown; But I have motives, whether wise or silly, For letting that pure sanctuary alone.Therefore I name not square, street, place, until I Find one where nothing naughty can
- 677 'T is granted; and the valet mounts the d.i.c.key-- That gentleman of Lords and Gentlemen; Also my Lady's gentlewoman, tricky, Tricked out, but modest more than poet's pen Can paint,--_"Cosi viaggino i Ricchi!"_[666](Excuse a foreign slipslop now and
- 678 Steel Barons, molten the next generation To silken rows of gay and gartered Earls, Glanced from the walls in goodly preservation: And Lady Marys blooming into girls, With fair long locks, had also kept their station: And Countesses mature in robes and pea
- 679 Lx.x.xVII.There was d.i.c.k Dubious,[690] the metaphysician, Who loved philosophy and a good dinner; Angle, the _soi-disant_ mathematician; Sir Henry Silvercup, the great race-winner.There was the Reverend Rodomont Precisian, Who did not hate so much the
- 680 Then there were billiards; cards, too, but _no_ dice;-- Save in the clubs no man of honour plays;-- Boats when 't was water, skating when 't was ice, And the hard frost destroyed the scenting days: And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Wa
- 681 Surrounding the quadrangle are two-storied cloisters, and in the centre a "Gothic fountain" (stanza lxv. line 1) of composite workmans.h.i.+p. The upper portion of the stonework is hexagonal, and is ornamented with a double row of gargoyles (all "monst
- 682 [690] [Perhaps Sir James Mackintosh--a frequent guest at Holland House.]{508}[691] [Possibly Colonel (afterwards Sir James) Macdonell [d. 1857], "a man of colossal stature," who occupied and defended the Chateau of Hougoumont on the night before the bat
- 683 IX.The World is all before me[707]--or behind; For I have seen a portion of that same, And quite enough for me to keep in mind;-- Of pa.s.sions, too, I have proved enough to blame, To the great pleasure of our friends, Mankind, Who like to mix some slight
- 684 We left our heroes and our heroines In that fair clime which don't depend on climate, Quite independent of the Zodiac's signs, Though certainly more difficult to rhyme at, Because the Sun, and stars, and aught that s.h.i.+nes, Mountains, and all we can
- 685 Uttered by friends, those prophets of the _past_, Who, 'stead of saying what you _now_ should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last,[my]And solace your slight lapse 'gainst _bonos mores_, With a long memorandum of old stories.LI.The Lady Adel
- 686 LXXII.Still there was something wanting, as I've said-- That undefinable "_Je ne scais quoi_"Which, for what I know, may of yore have led To Homer's Iliad, since it drew to Troy The Greek Eve, Helen, from the Spartan's bed; Though on the whole, no do
- 687 XCII.She was, or thought she was, his friend--and this Without the farce of Friends.h.i.+p, or romance Of Platonism, which leads so oft amiss Ladies who have studied Friends.h.i.+p but in France Or Germany, where people _purely_ kiss.[nc]To thus much Adel
- 688 _And what not--though he had ridden like a Centaur_ _When called next day declined the same adventure_.--[MS.][712] [Mr. W. Ernst, in his _Memoirs of the Life of Lord Chesterfield_, 1893 (p. 425, note 2), quotes these lines in connection with a comparison
- 689 But, more or less, the whole's a Syncope Or a _Singultus_--emblems of Emotion, The grand Ant.i.thesis to great _Ennui_, Wherewith we break our bubbles on the Ocean-- That Watery Outline of Eternity, Or miniature, at least, as is my notion-- Which ministe
- 690 XXII.A modest hope--but Modesty's my forte, And Pride my feeble:[741]--let us ramble on.I meant to make this poem very short, But now I can't tell where it may not run.[no]No doubt, if I had wished to pay my court To critics, or to hail the _setting_ su
- 691 Love's riotous, but Marriage should have quiet, And being consumptive, live on a milk diet.XLII.And then there was the Miss Audacia Shoestring, A das.h.i.+ng _demoiselle_ of good estate, Whose heart was fixed upon a star or blue string; But whether Engli
- 692 There was a goodly "soupe a la _bonne femme_"[754]Though G.o.d knows whence it came from; there was, too, A turbot for relief of those who cram, Relieved with "dindon a la Perigeux;"There also was----the sinner that I am!How shall I get this gourmand
- 693 Lx.x.xIII.Aurora, who in her indifference Confounded him in common with the crowd Of flatterers, though she deemed he had more sense Than whispering foplings, or than witlings loud-- Commenced[759] (from such slight things will great commence) To feel tha
- 694 [nk] _Old Skeleton with ages for your booty_.--[MS. erased.]{547}[735] ["He turned himself into all manner of forms with more ease than the chameleon changes his colour.... Thus at Sparta he was all for exercise, frugal in his diet, and severe in his man
- 695 [According to Pliny (_Nat, Hist._, lib. xv. cap. xxv. ed. 1593, ii.131), there were no cherry trees in Italy until L. Lucullus brought them home with him from Pontus after the Mithridatic War (B.C. 74), and it was not for another hundred and twenty years
- 696 And Juan, on retiring for the night, Felt restless, and perplexed, and compromised: He thought Aurora Raby's eyes more bright Than Adeline (such is advice) advised; If he had known exactly his own plight, He probably would have philosophised: A great res
- 697 Lord Henry, who had now discussed his chocolate, Also the m.u.f.fin whereof he complained, Said, Juan had not got his usual look elate, At which he marvelled, since it had not rained; Then asked her Grace what news were of the Duke of late?_Her_ Grace rep
- 698 XLVIII.Aurora--since we are touching upon taste, Which now-a-days is the thermometer By whose degrees all characters are cla.s.sed-- Was more Shakespearian, if I do not err.The worlds beyond this World's perplexing waste Had more of her existence, for in
- 699 There was much bustle too, and preparation Below stairs on the score of second courses; Because, as suits their rank and situation, Those who in counties have great land resources Have "public days," when all men may carouse, Though not exactly what's
- 700 Lx.x.xIX.This was no bad mistake, as it occurred, The supplicator being an amateur; But others, who were left with scarce a third, Were angry--as they well might, to be sure, They wondered how a young man so absurd Lord Henry at his table should endure; A