e,
tous ses mouvemens, indiquoient un soldat. Son langage etoit amer, son
deportement superbe, et par son seul regard, il faisoit trembler les
plus hardis."--Simonde de Sismondi, _Histoire des Republiques Italiennes
du Moyen Age_, 1809, iii. 219.

Again, "Gizericus [Genseric, king of the Vandals, the conqueror of both
Carthage and Rome] ... statura mediocris, et equi casu claudicans, animo
profundus, sermone ratus, luxuriae contemptor, ira turbidus, habendi
cupidus, ad sollicitandas gentes providentissimus," etc.,
etc.--Jornandes, _De Getarum Origine_ ("De Rebus Geticis"), cap. 33,
_ed._ 1597, p. 92.

I beg leave to quote those gloomy realities to keep in countenance my
Giaour and Corsair.--[Added to the Ninth Edition.]

[201] [Stanza x. was an after-thought. It is included in a sixth revise,
in which lines 244-246 have been erased, and the present reading
superscribed. A seventh revise gives the text as above.]

[hp] {236}
_Released but to convulse or freeze or glow!_
_Fire in the veins, or damps upon the brow_.--[MS.]

[hq]
_Behold his soul once seen not soon forgot!_
_All that there burns its hour away--but sears_
_The scathed Remembrance of long coming years_.--[MS.]

[202] {237} [Lines 277-280 are not in the MS. They were inserted on a
detached printed sheet, with a view to publication in the Seventh
Edition.]

[hr] {238} _Not Guilt itself could quench this earliest one_.--[MS.
erased.]

[hs] {239}
_Now to Francesca_.--[MS.]
_Now to Ginevra_.--[Revise of January 6, 1814.]
_Now to Medora_.--[Revise of January 15, 1814.]

[ht] _Yet heed my prayer--my latest accents hear_.--[MS.]

[203] [Compare--

"He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend."
Gray's _Elegy in a Country Churchyard._]

[204] {243} [For Bireno's desertion of Olympia, see] _Orlando Funoso_,
Canto X. [stanzas 1-27].

[hu] {244}
_Oh! he could bear no more--but madly grasped_
_Her form--and trembling there his own unclasped_.--[MS.]

[205] {247} By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of
the oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash
like sheet lightning from the water.

[206] {248} [Cape Gallo is at least eight miles to the south of Corone;
but Point Lividia, the promontory on which part of the town is built,
can hardly be described as a "jutting cape," or as (