ld form a melancholy jest-book of a considerable size.

[hv] {268}
_I breathe but in the hope--his altered breast_
_May seek another--and have mine at rest._
_Or if unwonted fondness now I feign_.{A}--[MS.]

{A}[The alteration was sent to the publishers on a separate quarto
sheet, with a memorandum, "In Canto _first_--nearly the end," etc.--a
rare instance of inaccuracy on the part of the author.]

[224] {270} The opening lines, as far as section ii., have, perhaps,
little business here, and were annexed to an unpublished (though
printed) poem [_The Curse of Minerva_]; but they were written on the
spot, in the Spring of 1811, and--I scarce know why--the reader must
excuse their appearance here--if he can. [See letter to Murray, October
23, 1812.]

[225] [See _Curse of Minerva_, line 7, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 457.
For Hydra, see A. L. Castellan's _Lettres sur la Moree_, 1820, i.
155-176. He gives (p. 174) a striking description of a _sunrise_ off the
Cape of Sunium.]

[226] {271} Socrates drank the hemlock a short time before sunset (the
hour of execution), notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to
wait till the sun went down.

[227] The twilight in Greece is much shorter than in our own country:
the days in winter are longer, but in summer of shorter duration.

[228] {272} The Kiosk is a Turkish summer house: the palm is without the
present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between
which and the tree, the wall intervenes.--Cephisus' stream is indeed
scanty, and Ilissus has no stream at all.

[E. Dodwell (_Classical Tour_, 1819, i. 371) speaks of "a magnificent
palm tree, which shoots among the ruins of the Ptolemaion," a short
distance to the east of the Theseion. There is an illustration in its
honour. The Theseion--which was "within five minutes' walk" of Byron's
lodgings (_Travels in Albania_, 1858, i. 259)--contains the remains of
the scholar, John Tweddell, died 1793, "over which a stone was placed,
owing to the exertions of Lord Byron" (Clarke's _Travels_, Part II.
sect. i. p. 534). When Byron died, Colonel Stanhope proposed, and the
chief Odysseus decreed, that he should be buried in the same
spot.--_Life_, p. 640.]

[229] {273} [After the battle of Salamis, B.C. 480, Paros fell under the
dominion of Athens.]

[hw] {274}
_They gather round and each his aid supplies_.--[MS.]

[hx] {275}
_Within that cave Debate waxed warm and strange_.--[_MS_.]