3. "Written at Athens, January 16th, 1810 "The spell is broke, the charm is flown.'" 4. "Stanzas composed October 11, 1809, during the night in a thunderstorm, when the guides had lost the road to Zitza, in the range of mountains formerly called Pindus, in Albania." On a blank leaf bound up with the MS. at the end of the volume, Byron wrote "DEAR D.,-This is all that was contained in the MS., but the outside cover has been torn off by the booby of a binder. "Yours ever, "B." The volume is bound in smooth green morocco, bordered by a single gilt line. "MS." in gilt lettering is stamped on the side cover. II. COLLATION OF FIRST EDITION, QUARTO, 1812, WITH MS. OF THE FIRST CANTO. The MS. numbers ninety-one stanzas, the First Edition ninety-three stanzas. OMISSIONS FROM THE MS. Stanza vii. "Of all his train there was a henchman page,” viii. "Him and one yeoman only did he take," xxii. "Unhappy Vathek! in an evil hour,” XXV. In golden characters right well designed," xxvii. "But when Convention sent his handy work,"xxviii. “Thus unto Heaven appealed the people: Heaven," lxxxviii. "There may you read with spectacles on eyes," lxxxix. "There may you read-Oh, Phoebus, save Sir John," xc. "Yet here of Vulpes mention may be made,"— INSERTIONS IN THE FIRST EDITION. Stanza i. "Oh, thou! in Hellas deemed of heavenly birth,”viii. "Yet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood,”— ix. "And none did love him!-though to hall and bower," xliii. “Oh, Albuera! glorious field of grief!"— lxxxv. “Adieu, fair Cadiz ! yea, a long adieu ! ”— lxxxvi. "Such be the sons of Spain, and strange her Fate," lxxxviii. "Flows there a tear of Pity for the dead?". lxxxix. "Not yet, alas! the dreadful work is done,”xc. "Not all the blood at Talavera shed," xci. "And thou, my friend !—since unavailing woe,”— xcii. “Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most," The MS. of the Second Canto numbers eighty stanzas; the First Edition numbers eighty-eight stanzas. OMISSIONS FROM THE MS. Stanza viii. "Frown not upon me, churlish Priest! that I,”xiv. "Come, then, ye classic Thieves of each degree," 66 Or will the gentle Dilettanti crew,”lxiii. "Childe Harold with that Chief held colloquy,” XV. INSERTIONS IN THE FIRST EDITION. Stanza viii. "Yet if, as holiest men have deemed, there be,”— ix. "There, Thou! whose Love and Life together fled," xv. “Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on Thee," lii. "Oh! where, Dodona! is thine agéd Grove? 66 lxiii. Mid many things most new to ear and eye,” lxxx. "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground,”lxxxiii. "Let such approach this consecrated Land,”lxxxiv. "For thee, who thus in too protracted song," lxxxv. “Thou too art gone, thou loved and lovely one ! "__ Stanza lxxxvi. "Oh! ever loving, lovely, and beloved!"— 66 66 lxxxvii. Then must I plunge again into the crowd,”– lxxxviii. What is the worst of woes that wait on Age?" ADDITIONS TO THE SEVENTH EDITION, 1814. The Second Canto, in the first six editions, numbers eightyeight stanzas; in the Seventh Edition the Second Canto numbers ninety-eight stanzas. ADDITIONS. The Dedication, To Ianthe. Stanza xxvii. "More blest the life of godly Eremite," 66 lxxvii. The city won for Allah from the Giaour,”lxxviii. "Yet mark their mirth, ere Lenten days begin," lxxix. "And whose more rife with merriment than thine," lxxx. "Loud was the lightsome tumult on the shore," lxxxi. "Glanced many a light Caique along the foam," lxxxii. "But, midst the throng in merry masquerade," lxxxiii. "This must he feel, the true-born son of Greece," lxxxix. "The Sun, the soil-but not the slave, the same," xc. "The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow,"— 1809. ITINERARY. CANTO I. July 2. July 6. Sail from Falmouth in Lisbon packet. (Stanza xii. Arrive Lisbon. (Stanzas xvi., xvii. Letter 126.) Visit Mafra. (Stanza xxix.) Letter 128.) July 17. Leave Lisbon. (Stanza xxviii. Letter 127.) Ride through Portugal and Spain to Seville. (Stanzas xxviii.-xlii. Letter 127.) July 21. Visit Albuera. (Stanza xliii.) Arrive Seville. (Stanzas xlv., xlvi. Letters 127, 128.) July 25. Leave Seville. Ride to Cadiz, across the Sierra Morena. (Stanza li.) Cadiz. (Stanzas lxv.-lxxxiv. Letters 127, 128.) CANTO II. Aug. 6. Arrive Gibraltar. (Letters 127, 128.) Aug. 17. Sail from Gibraltar in Malta packet. (Stanzas xvii.-xxviii.) Malta. (Stanzas xxix.-xxxv. Letter 130.) Sept. 19. Sept. 23. Sail from Malta in brig-of-war Spider. (Letter 131.) Sept. 27. In the channel between Ithaca and the mainland. (Stanzas xxxix.-xlii.) Sept. 28. Anchor off Prevesa (7 p.m.). (Stanza xlv.) VOL. II. d 1809. Oct. I. Oct. 3. Oct. 4. Oct. 5. Oct. 8. Oct. II. Leave Prevesa, arrive Salakhora (Salagoura). Leave Arta, arrive han St. Demetre (H. Dhimittrios). Oct. 13. Leave Zitza, arrive Mossiani (Móseri). Oct. 14. Leave Mossiani, arrive Delvinaki (Dhelvinaki). (Stanza liv.) Oct. 15. Leave Delvinaki, arrive Libokhovo. Oct. 17. Oct. 18. Oct. 19. Oct. 20. Leave Libokhovo, arrive Cesarades (Kestourataes). Oct. 31. Nov. 3. Byron begins the First Canto of Childe Harold. Nov. 4. Leave han St. Demetre, arrive Arta. Nov. 5. Nov. 7. Nov. 8. Leave Arta, arrive Salakhora. Nov. 9. Nov. 10. Nov. II. Nov. 13. Leave Salakhora, arrive Prevesa. Sail from Prevesa, anchor off mainland near Leave Parga, and, returning by land, arrive (Stanza lxix.) Leave Volondorako, arrive Castrosikia (Kastrosykia). Leave Castrosikia, arrive Prevesa. Sail from Vonitsa, arrive Lutraki (Loutráki). Leave Katúna, arrive Makalá (? Machalas). |