Is ebbing from me, yet I do defy ye; Nor will I hence, while I have earthly breath SPIRIT. ye take Reluctant mortal! Is this the Magian who would so pervade MANFRED. Thou false fiend, thou liest! My life is in its last hour,—that I know, Upon my strength-I do defy-deny- SPIRIT. But thy many crimes Have made thee MANFRED. What are they to such as thee? Must crimes he punish'd but by other crimes, And greater criminals?-Back to thy hell! A torture which could nothing gain from thine: And its own place and time-its innate sense, Born from the knowledge of its own desert. Thou didst not tempt me, and thou couldst not tempt me; ABBOT. (The Demons disappear. Alas! how pale thou art-thy lips are white- MANFRED. 'Tis over-my dull eyes can fix thee not; ABBOT. Cold-cold-even to the heart But yet one prayer-alas! how fares it with thee?— MANFRED. Old man! 't is not so difficult to die, ABBOT. (MANFRED expires. He's gone-his soul hath ta'en its earthless flightWhither? I dread to think-but he is gone. NOTES TO MANFRED. Note 1, page 23, lines 18 and 19. the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, etc. This Iris is formed by the rays of the sun over the lower part of the Alpine torrents: it is exactly like a rainbow come down to pay a visit, and so close that you may walk into it-this effect lasts till noon. Note 2, page 26, lines 28 and 29. He who from out their fountain dwellings raised The philosopher Iamblicus. The story of the raising of Eros and Anteros may be found in his life, by Eunapius. It is well told. Note 3, page 30, lines 25 and 26. she replied In words of dubious import, but fulfill'd. The story of Pausanias, king of Sparta, (who commanded the Greeks at the battle of Platea, and afterwards perished for an attempt to betray the Lacedemonians) and Cleonice, is told in Plutarch's life of Cimon; and in the Laconics of Pausanias the Sophist, in his description of Greece. Note 4, page 51, lines 4 and 5. the giant sons Of the embrace of angels, etc. "That the Sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," etc. « There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the Sons of God went in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of of old, men of renown." Genesis, ch. vi. verses 2 and 4. |