norsemen, answering to our forlorn hope. - Selictar, sword-bearer.

Line 702. Spirit of freedom! when on Phyle's brow. Phyle, which commands a beautiful view of Athens, has still considerable remains; it was seized by Thrasybulus, previous to the expulsion of the Thirty.

Line 729. The city won for Allah from the Giaour. [Constantinople. It was taken by the Franks in the crusade of 1204.- Wahab (d. 1787) introduced a stricter observance of the faith; his followers captured Mecca and Medina.]

Page 33, line 810. Save where some solitary column mourns. Of Mount Pentelicus, from whence the marble was dug that constructed the public edifices of Athens. The modern name is Mount Mendeli. An immense cave formed by the quarries still remains, and will, till the end of time.

Line 812. Save where Tritonia's airy shrine. [The temple of Athena on Cape Sunium, or Cojonna.]

Line 843. When Marathon became a magic word. 'Siste Viator-heroa calcas!' was the epitaph on the famous Count Merci ;- what then must be our feelings when standing on the tumulus of the two hundred (Greeks) who fell on Marathon? The principal barrow has recently been opened by Fauvel; few or no relics, as vases, etc., were found by the excavator. The plain of Marathon was offered to me for sale at the sum of sixteen thousand piastres, about nine hundred pounds! Alas!-Expende, quot libras in duce summo- -invenies!" was the dust of Miltiades worth no more? It could scarcely have fetched less if sold by weight.

Page 34, line 872. Or gazing o'er the plains where Greek and Persian died. [The original MS. closes with this stanza. The rest was added while the canto was passing through the press.]

Line 891. Thou too art gone. See note to stanza ix. page 20.]

Page 38, line 158. In pride of place' here last the eagle flew. 'Pride of place' is a term of falconry, and means the highest pitch of flight. See Macbeth :

'An eagle towering in his pride of place.' [Byron quotes from memory, and, as often, not quite correctly.]

Line 180. Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant lord. (Harmodius and Aristogiton delivered Athens from the tyranny of Hippias and Hipparchus, the sons of Pisistratus. A famous skolion, or banquet-song, celebrated the slaying of Hipparchus. The first stanza is thus translated by Denman:

'I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle bough,
The sword that laid the tyrant low,
When patriots, burning to be free,
To Athens gave equality.']

Line 181. There was a sound of revelry by night. The Duchess of Richmond's ball, June 15, 1815, the evening before Waterloo. The superb use

of contrast in these stanzas can only be parallelled in the corresponding scene of Vanity Fair.]

Line 200. Brunswick's fated chieftain. [The father of the Duke of Brunswick, who fell at Quatre-Bras, received his death-wound at Jena.]

Page 39, line 234. And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ars! Sir Evan Cameron, and his descendant Donald, the gentle Lochiel' [of Campbell's ballad] of the fortyfive.'

Line 235. And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves. The wood of Soignies is supposed to be a remnant of the forest of Ar dennes,' famous in Boiardo's Orlando, and immortal in Shakspeare's As you like it. It is also celebrated in Tacitus as being the spot of successful defence by the Germans against the Roman encroachments. I have ventured to adopt the name connected with nobler associations than those of mere slaughter.

Line 261. Young, gallant Howard. [Byron had written against his father, the Earl of Car lisle, in English Bards.]

Page 40, line 270. I turn'd from all she brought My guide from Mont St. Jean over the field seemed intelligent and accurate. The place where Major Howard fell was not far from two tall and solitary trees (there was a third cut down, or shivered in the battle) which stand a few yards from each other at a pathway's side. Beneath these he died and was buried. body has since been removed to England. A small hollow for the present marks where it lay, but will probably soon be effaced; the plough has been upon it, and the grain is.

The

Line 303. Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore. The (fabled) apples on the brink of the lake Asphaltes were said to be fair without, and within ashes. - Vide Tacitus, Histor. v. 7.

Page 41, line 369. For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. The great error of Napoleon, if we have writ our annals true,' was a continued obtrusion on mankind of his want of all community of feeling for or with them; perhaps more offensive to human vanity than the active cruelty of more trembling and suspicious tyranny. Such were his speeches to public assemblies as well as individuals; and the single expression which he is said to have used on returning to Paris after the Russian winter had destroyed his army, rubbing his hands over a fire, This is pleasanter than Moscow,' would probably alienate more favour from his cause than the destruction and reverses which led to the remark.

Page 42, line 429. What want these outlaws conquerors should have.

of the Rhine in May, 1816. They are addressed to his half-sister.]

Page 44, line 537. There is a small and simple pyramid. The monument of the young and lamented General Marceau (killed by a rifle-ball at Alterkirchen on the last day of the fourth year of the French republic) still remains as described. The inscriptions on his monument are rather too long, and not required; his name was enough; France adored, and her enemies admired; both wept over him. His funeral was attended by the generals and detachments from both armies. In the same grave General Hoche is interred.

Page 45, line 601. Morat! the proud, the patriot field! [Here in 1476 the Swiss defeated the Duke of Burgundy with great slaughter. Byron found there a small pyramid of bones only, the mortuary chapel, which had contained them, having been destroyed in 1798.]

Aventicum,

Line 625. Levell'd Aventicum. near Morat, was the Roman capital of Helvetia, where Avenches now stands. [A solitary Corinthian column, the remnant of a temple of Apollo, stands near the town.]

Line 627. Julia, the daughter, the devoted. Julia Alpinula, a young Aventian priestess, died soon after a vain endeavour to save her father, condemned to death as a traitor by Aulus Cacina. Her epitaph was discovered many years ago;- - it is thus: Julia Alpinula: Hic jaceo. Infelicis patris infelix proles. Deæ Aventiæ Sacerdos. Exorare patris necem non potui: Male mori in fatis ille erat. Vixi annos XXIII.' I know of no human composition so affecting as this, nor a history of deeper interest. These are the names and actions which ought not to perish, and to which we turn with a true and healthy tenderness, from the wretched and glittering detail of a confused mass of conquests and battles, with which the mind is roused for a time to a false and feverish sympathy, from whence it recurs at length with all the nausea consequent on such intoxication. [It must be added that the inscription is really a forgery of a certain Paulus Guilelmus of the sixteenth century.]

Line 642. Like yonder Alpine snow. This is written in the eye of Mont Blanc (June 3, 1816), which even at this distance dazzles mine. (July 20th.) I this day observed for some time the distinct reflection of Mont Blanc and Mont Argentière in the calm of the lake, while I was crossing in my boat; the distance of these mountains from their mirror is sixty miles.

Page 46, line 673. By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. The colour of the Rhone at Geneva is blue, to a depth of tint which I have never seen equalled in water, salt or fresh, except in the Mediterranean and Archipelago. Lines 693, 694. Remount at last with a fresh pinion. [Compare the similar metaphor in Plato's Phaedrus; also Horace, Od. iii. 2, 24 and ii. 20, 9.]

Page 47, line 725. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau. [I have traversed all Rousseau's ground with the Héloïse before me,

and am struck to a degree, with the force and accuracy of his descriptions, and the beauty of their reality. Meillerie, Clarens, and Vevay. and the Château de Chillon, are places of which I shall say little; because all I could say must fall short of the impressions they stamp.'-B. Letter to Murray, June 27, 1816. This whole passage is a masterpiece of psychological criti cism.]

Line 743. This breathed itself to life in Julie. [The heroine of Rousseau's Héloïse.]

Line 745. The memorable kiss. This refers to the account in his Confessions of his passion for the Comtesse d'Hondetot (the mistress of St. Lambert), and his long walk every morning, for the sake of the single kiss which was the com mon salutation of French acquaintance.

Page 49, line 860. The sky is changed!— and such a change! The thunder-storm to which these lines refer occurred on the 13th of June, 1816, at midnight. I have seen, among the Acroceraunian mountains of Chimari, several more terrible, but none more beautiful.

Line 878. Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way. [The simile is taken from Coleridge's Christabel, ii. 408 ss.]

Page 50, line 923. Clarens, birthplace of deep Love! It would be difficult to see Clarens (with the scenes around it, Vevay, Chillon, Boveret, St. Gingo, Meillerie, Eivan, and the entrances of the Rhone), without being forcibly struck with its peculiar adaptation to the persons and events with which it has been peopled. But this is not all: the feeling with which all around Clarens, and the opposite rocks of Meillerie, is invested, is of a still higher and more comprehensive order than the mere sympathy with individual passion; it is a sense of the existence of love in its most extended and sublime capacity, and of our own participation of its good and of its glory: it is the great principle of the universe, which is there more condensed, but not less manifested; and of which, though knowing ourselves a part, we lose our individuality, and mingle in the beauty of the whole. If Rousseau had never written, nor lived, the same associations would not less have belonged to such scenes. He has added to the interest of his works by their adoption; he has shown his sense of their beauty by the selection; but they have done that for him which no human being could do for them. [Byron's note quotes at length from Rousseau, Héloïse, Part iv. Lettre 17, and Les Confessions, iv. p. 306.]

Page 51, line 959. He who hath loved not, here would learn that lore. [Compare the refrain of the Pervigilium Veneris: Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet.]

Line 978. Of names which unto you bequeath'd a name. Voltaire and Gibbon.

Page 52, line 1057. Had I not filed my mind. [Defiled. Compare Macbeth, III. i. 64.]'

Page 53, line 1064. O'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve. It is said by Rochefoucault, that there is always something in the misfortunes of men's best friends not displeasing te them.

Page 55, line 1. I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs. The communication between the ducal palace and the prisons of Venice is by a gloomy bridge, or covered gallery, high above the water.

Line 10. She looks a sea Cybele. [Byron notes that the metaphor is drawn from Sabellicus. Cybele (properly accented on the first syllable) was regularly pictured with a tiara of towers.]

Line 19. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more. The well-known song of the gondoliers, of alternate stanzas from Tasso's Jerusalem, has died. with the independence of Venice. Editions of the poem, with the original on one column, and the Venetian variations on the other, as sung by the boatmen, were once common, and are still to be found.

Page 56, line 57. Are now but so. [Are now but dreams.]

Line 86. Sparta hath many a worthier son than he.' The answer of the mother of Bra' sidas, the Lacedæmonian general, to the strap gers who praised the memory of her son.

Line 93. The Bucentaur lies rotting unrestores [The famous galley from which the Doge ever year dropped a ring into the sea, with the words

P

We wed thee with this ring in token of our f true and perpetual sovereignty.' The Bucer taur was finally burned by the French in 1797.)

Line 95. St. Mark yet sees his lion. [Th winged Lion of St. Mark stands on a column overlooking the Piazzo di San Marco. Here 1177 the Suabian Emperor Babarossa submitt to Pope Alexander III.]

Page 57, line 106. Like lauwine. [German fc avalanche.]

Line 107. Oh, for one hour of blind old Danaolo. The reader will recollect the exclamation of the highlander, Oh for one hour of Dundee ! Henry Dandolo, when elected Doge, in 1192, was eighty-five years of age. When he commanded the Venetians at the taking of Constantinople, he was consequently ninety-seven years old. At this age he annexed the fourth and a half of the whole empire of Romania, for so the Roman empire was then called, to the title and to the territories of the Venetian Doge.

Line 111. But is not Doria's menace come to pass? [After the loss of the battle of Pola, and the taking of Chioggia in 1379, the Venetians sued for peace and received this reply from Peter Doria, the Genoese commander: 'On God's faith, gentlemen of Venice, ye shall have no peace from the Signor of Padua, nor from our commune of Genoa, until we have first put a rein upon those unbridled horses of yours, that are upon the porch of your evangelist St. Mark. When we have bridled them, we shall keep you quiet.']

Line 120. The Planter of the Lion.' That is, the Lion of St. Mark, the standard of the republic, which is the origin of the word Pantaloon Piantaleone, Pantaleon, Pantaloon. [This etymology is of course purely fantastic.]

Line 138. Redemption rose up in the Attic Muse. The story is told in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. [Some of the prisoners, it is stated, won

the good will of their masters by reciting Eu ripides to them.]

Page 58, line 158. And Otway, Radcliffe, Schiller, Shakspeare's art [Byron names in a note] Venice Preserved Lysteries of Udolpho; The Ghost Seer, or Armenian; The Merchant of Venice; Othello.

ow. [German for

Line 172. Will the to firs.] Page 59, line 24: in island of the blest! The above description may seem fantastical or rated to those who have never seen an al or Italian sky, yet is but a literal and hardly sufficient delineation of an August even'ng (the eighteenth), as contemplated in one of many rides along the banks of the Brenta, near La Mira.

Line 262. There is a tomb in Arqua. [Petrarch spent the last years of his life in the village of Arqua, s buried there.]

Page 60, line 258. Or, it may be, with demons. 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.

Line 307. Ferrara. [The seat of the house of Este. It is a common tradition that Tasso was imprisoned as a madman by Alfonso II. because of the poet's unfortunate love for the duke's sister. Tasso's works were severely criticised

he Florentine Accademia della Črusca, and Boileau. Byron quotes, in a note, and comments on a couplet of Boileau's:

A Malherbe, à Racan, préfère Théophile,

Et le clinquant du Tasse à tout l'or de Virgile.] Page 61, line 354. The pards of Hell and Chivalry. [Dante and Aro. The last line of the stanzas from the opening line of the Orlando.]

Line 361. The lightning rent from Ariosto's bust. Before the remains of Ariosto were removed from the Benedictine church to the library of Ferrara, his bust, which surmounted the tomb, was struck by lightning, and a crown of iron laurels melted away. [The laurel was deemed safe from lightning by the ancients.

Line 387. Victor or vanquish'd, thou the slave of friend or foe. The two stanzas xlii, and xliii. are, with the exception of a line or two, a translation of the famous sonnet of Filicaja :Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte!

Line 388. Wandering in youth, I traced the path of him. The celebrated letter of Servins Sulpicius to Cicero on the death of his daughter describes as it then was, and now is, a path which I often traced in Greece, both by sea and land, in different journeys and voyages.

On my return from Asia, as I was sailing from Egina towards Megara, I began to contemplate the prospect of the countries around me: Egina was behind, Megara before me; Piræus on the right, Corinth on the left; all which towns, once famous and flourishing, now

lie overturned and buried in their ruins. Upon this sight, I could not but think presently within myself, Alas! how do we poor mortals fret and vex ourselves if any of our friends happen to die or to belled, whose life is yet so short, when the carcasses of so many noble cities lie here exposed tore me in one view.' See Middleton's iii. 371. Page 62, line 413. leton of her Titanic form. It is Poggio who, king from the Capitoline hill upon ruined Rome, breaks forth into the exclamation, Ut nunc omni d, nudata, prostrata jacet, instar gigantei caq. ris corrupti atque undique exesi.'

Line 433. There, too, the Goddess loves in stone. [The Venus de' Medici.]

Line 454. Thy own vanquish ? of War. [The scene is an imitation of Lucretius, i. 33 ss.] Page 63, line 505. Dante sleeps afar. [Dante was buried in Ravenna.] Scipio Africanus had a tomb if he was not ouried at Liternum, whither he had retired to voluntary banishment.

The

Lines 510, 511. The crown Which Petr laureat brow supremely wore. [He was crow with the laurel-wreath at Rome in 1341. H grave was rifled in 1630.]

Lines 514, 515. Boccaccio to his parent earth bequeath'd His dust. Boccaccio was buried in the church of St. Michael and St. James, at Certaldo, a small town in the Valdelsa, which was by some supposed the place of his birth. There he passed the latter part of his life in course of laborious study, which shortened his existence, and there might his ashes have been secure, if not of honour, at least of repose. But the hyæna bigots' of Certaldo tore up the tombstone of Boccaccio, and ejected it from the holy precincts of St. Michael and St. James.

Page 64, line 525. sar's pageant, shorn of Brutus' bust. [The busts of Bus and Cassius were not carried in the funeral procession of Junia, who was the sister of the former and wife of the latter. They were conspicuous by their absence.'- TACITUS, Ann. iii. 76.]

Line 551. Thrasimene's lake. [Lake Trasimenus. Here in 217 B. c. the Romans were overwhelmed by Hannibal. The incident of the earthquake is recorded by Livy.]

Page 65, line 586. But thou, Clitumnus. [A river of Umbria springing from a rock, where stands a temple to the god Clitumnus.]

Line 590. The milk-white steer. [Compare Virgil, Geor. ii. 146: Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges.]

Page 66, line 653. The thundering louwine. In the greater part of Switzerland, the avalanches are known by the name of lauwine.

Line 665. The lone Soracte's height. [A mountain visible from the city of Rome. Horace (Od. i. 9) speaks of it as standing white with deep snow.]

Line 707. The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now. [The tomb of the Scipios was discovered and rifled in 1780.]

Page 67, line 731. The trebly hundred triumphs! Orosius gives 320 for the number of triumphs.

He is followed by Panvinius; and Panvinius by Mr. Gibbon and the modern writers.

Line 740. Triumphant Sylla! [In 86 B. c. Cinna and Marius, his enemies, were appointed Consuls, but Sulla brought his eastern campaign to a close before returning to Rome. In 79 B. C. he resigned the dictatorship.]

Line 764. His day of double victory and death. On the third of September, Cromwell gained the victory of Dunbar; a year afterwards he obtained his crowning mercy' of Worcester; nd a few years after, on the same day, which he had ever esteemed the most fortunate for 'him, died.

Page 68, line 784. The thunder-stricken nurse of Rome! [The bronze statue of the wolf which nursed Romulus and Remus was according to Cicero struck by lightning. The present statue of doubtful origin.]

Line 809. Alcides with the distaff. [Hercules, o spun wool for Omphale while serving her a slave.]

Page 69, line 883. There is a stern round tower ther days. Alluding to the tomb of Cecilia tella, called Capo di Bove, in the Appian ...ay. [The tomb was built in honor of the

ughter of Metellus Creticus (not Cecilia Meta), and daughter-in-law of Crassus, the richest of the Romans. In the Middle Ages the tb was used as a fortress.]

Page 71, line 990. To crush the imperial arn. The column of Trajan is surmounted by St. Fr; that of Aurelius by St. Paul.

Mage 72, line 1036. The mosses of thy fountain l are sprinkled. [The grotto where tradition locates the secret meetings of Numa and Egeria, is on the Appian Way not far from Rome. The ruined shrine is in reality of rather a late period.]

Page 74, line 1181. Left the unbalanced scale. [Grammar requires left'st.]

Page 75, line 1224. Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy. [Between stanzas cxxxv. and cxxxvi. we find in the original MS. the following:

If to forgive be heaping coals of fire

As God hath spoken on the heads of foes,
Mine should be a volcano, and rise higher
Than, o'er the Titans crush'd, Olympus rose,
Or Athos soars, or blazing Etna glows:
True, they who stung were creeping things; but what
Than serpents' teeth inflicts with deadlier throes?
The Lion may be goaded by the Gnat. ---

Who sucks the slumberer's blood? - The Eagle ? — No: the Bat.]

Page 76, line 1252. I see before me the Gladiator lie. The well-known statue, now taken to be a dying Gaul.]

Line 1293. Like laurels on the bald first Cæsar's head. Suetonius informs us that Julius Cæsar was particularly gratified by that decree of the senate which enabled him to wear a wreath of laurel on all occasions. He was anxious, not to show that he was the conqueror of the world, but to hide that he was bald. A stranger at Rome would hardly have guessed at the motive, nor should we without the help of the historian.

Line 1297. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shail stand. This is quoted in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as a proof that the Coliseum was entire when seen by the AngloSaxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century.

Page 77, line 1324. There is a dungeon. This and the three next stanzas allude to the story of the Roman daughter, which is recalled to the traveller by the site, or pretended site, of that adventure, now shown at the church of St. Nicholas in Carcere. [The story is related by Festus (De Verb. Sign. xx.) and others.]

Page 78, line 1360. The Mole which Hadrian rear'd. The castle of St. Angelo.

Line 1369. The vast and wondrous dome. The church of St. Peter's. [Diana's marvel is the temple of Diana at Ephesus.]

Page 80, line 1495. Hark! forth from the abyss a voice proceeds. [The six following stanzas refer to the death of the Princess Charlotte, the only daughter of George IV. She died in childbirth November 6, 1817, universally lamented.]

Lines 1536, 1537. The strange fate Which tumbles mightiest sovereigns. Mary died on the scaffold; Elizabeth of a broken heart; Charles V. a hermit; Louis XIV. a bankrupt in means and glory; Cromwell of anxiety; and, the greatest is behind,' Napoleon lives a prisoner. To these sovereigns a long but superfluous list might be added of names equally illustrious and unhappy.

Page 81, line 1549. Lo, Nemi! navell'd in the woody hills. The village of Nemi was near the Arician retreat of Egeria, and from the shades which embosomed the temple of Diana, has preserved to this day its distinctive appellation of The Grove.

Line 1566. The Sabine farm. [The retreat of Horace.]

Page 82, line 1620. There let him lay. [This use of lay has caused considerable comment. Byron, whether carelessly or intentionally, employs lay several times in his poems as an intransitive verb. He might find authority for this confusion of lie and lay in writers of the Middle English period; but it must be confessed that no great poet of the language is so careless of his grammar as Byron.]

Page 86, line 11. John of Horistan. Horistan Castle, in Derbyshire, an ancient seat of the Byron family. [There is no record of any of Lord Byron's ancestors having engaged in the Holy Wars.]

Page 86. LETTERS TO AN ITALIAN NUN, etc. A second edition of this work was published in London, in 1784. It is, probably, a literary forgery.'-Note by E. H. Coleridge.]

Page 93. TO THE DUKE OF DORSET. [George John Frederick, fourth Duke of Dorset.]

Page 94, line 68. And call'd, proud boast! the British drama forth. [Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, was born in 1527. While a student of the Inner Temple, he wrote his tragedy of Gorboduc, which was played before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall, in 1561.'-CAMPBELL.]

Line 69. Another view, not less renown'd for wit. Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, was born in 1637, and died in 1706. He was esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, and alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III.

Page 95, line 1. Le Sage's demon's gift. The Diable Boiteux of Le Sage, where Asmodeus, the demon, places Don Cleofas on an elevated situation, and unroofs the houses for inspection.

Line 67. A numerous crowd, array'd in white. On a saint's day the students wear surplices in chapel.

Page 96, line 20. Mossop himself was outshone. [Henry] Mossop, a contemporary of Garrick. famous for his performance of Zanga in Young's The Revenge.]

Page 102, line 42. The pibroch raised its pierc ing note. The pibroch is properly the tune, not the instrument.]

Page 104, line 220. Thy Beltane yet may burn. Beltane Tree, a Highland festival on the first of May, held near fires lighted for the occasion.

Page 111, line 2. Magnus. No reflection is here intended against the person mentioned under the name of Magnus. He is merely represented as performing an unavoidable function of his office. [Dr. William Mansel was, in 1798, appointed to the headship of Trinity College, by Mr. Pitt.]

the

Page 117, line 25. Ill-starr'd, though brave. I allude here to my maternal ancestors, Gordons,' many of whom fought for the unfortunate Prince Charles, better known by the name of the Pretender. This branch was nearly allied by blood, as well as attachment, to the Stuarts.

Page 118, line 1. Becher. [The Rev. John Becher, prebendary of Southwell, in whom the youthful poet found not only an honest and judicious critic, but a sincere friend. To his care the superintendence of the second edition of Hours of Idleness, during its progress through a country press, was intrusted.]

Page 119, line 2. Repentant HENRY'S pride! Henry II. founded Newstead soon after the murder of Thomas à Becket.

Line 10. The crimson cross demand. The badge of the crusaders.

Page 120, line 43. Another HENRY the kind gift recalls. At the dissolution of the monas teries, Henry VIII. bestowed Newstead Abbe, on Sir John Byron.

Line 57. A regal fortress now. Newstead sustained a considerable siege in the war between Charles I. and his parliament.

Line 73. She snatch'd him from_th' unequal strife. Lord Byron, and his brother Sir William. held high commands in the royal army. The former was general in chief in Ireland, lieutenant of the Tower, and governor to James, Duke of York, afterwards the unhappy James II.; the latter had a principal share in many actions.

Line 76. Where godlike FALKLAND fell. Lucius Carey, Viscount Falkland, the most ac