pasted over the rejected stanzas (_vide supra_, p. 20,
_var_. i.), retains the numerous erasures and emendations. It ran as
follows:--

_And none did love him though to hall and bower_
_{-few could-}_
_Haughty he gathered revellers from far and near_
_{-An evil smile just bordering on a sneer-}_
_He knew them flatterers of the festal hour_
_{-Curled on his lip-}_
_The heartless Parasites of present cheer,_
_As if_
_{-And deemed no mortal wight his peer-}_
_Yea! none did love him not his lemmans dear_
_{-To gentle Dames still less he could be dear-}_
_{-Were aught-} But pomp and power alone are Woman's care_
_{-But-} And where these are let no Possessor fear_
_{-The sex are slaves-} Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare_
_{-Love shrinks outshone by Mammons dazzling-} glare_
_And Mammon_
_{-That Demon-} wins his_ [MS. torn] _where Angels might despair._

[28] [The "trivial particular" which suggested to Byron the
friendlessness and desolation of the Childe may be explained by the
refusal of an old schoolfellow to spend the last day with him before he
set out on his travels. The friend, possibly Lord Delawarr, excused
himself on the plea that "he was engaged with his mother and some ladies
to go shopping." "Friendship!" he exclaimed to Dallas. "I do not believe
I shall leave behind me, yourself and family excepted, and, perhaps, my
mother, a single being who will care what becomes of me" (Dallas,
_Recollections, etc._, pp. 63, 64). Byron, to quote Charles Lamb's
apology for Coleridge, was "full of fun," and must not be taken too
seriously. Doubtless he was piqued at the moment, and afterwards, to
heighten the tragedy of Childe Harold's exile, expanded a single act of
negligence into general abandonment and desertion at the hour of trial.]

[ab] {22} _No! none did love him_----.--[D. pencil.]

[29] The word "lemman" is used by Chaucer in both senses, but more
frequently in the feminine.--[_MS. M._]

[30] "Feere," a consort or mate. [Compare the line, "What when lords go
with their _feires_, she said," in "The Ancient Fragment of the Marriage
of Sir Gawaine" (Percy's _Reliques_, 1812, iii. 416), and the lines--

"As with the woful _fere_,
And father of that chaste dishonoured dame."
_Titus Andronicus_, act iv. sc. 1.

Compare, too, "That woman and her fleshless Pheere" (_The Ri