lbion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye."

[35] {25} [See Lord Maxwell's "Good Night" in Scott's _Minstrelsy of the
Scottish Border_ (_Poetical Works_, ii. 141, ed. 1834): "Adieu, madam,
my mother dear," etc. [MS.]. Compare, too, Armstrong's "Good Night"
_ibid._--

"This night is my departing night,
For here nae langer mun I stay;
There's neither friend nor foe of mine,
But wishes me away.
What I have done thro' lack of will,
I never, never can recall;
I hope ye're a' my friends as yet.
Good night, and joy be with you all."]

[36] {26} [Robert Rushton, the son of one of the Newstead tenants.
"Robert I take with me; I like him, because, like myself, he seems a
friendless animal. Tell Mr. Rushton his son is well, and doing well"
(letter to Mrs. Byron, Falmouth, June 22, 1809: _Letters_, 1898, i.
224).]

[aj] {27}

_Our best gos-hawk can hardly fly_
_So merrily along_.--[MS.]
_Our best greyhound can hardly fly_.--[D. erased.]

[ak] Here follows in the MS. the following erased stanza:--

_My mother is a high-born dame_,
_And much misliketh me;_
_She saith my riot bringeth shame_
_On all my ancestry_.
_I had a sister once I ween_,
_Whose tears perhaps will flow;_
_But her fair face I have not seen_
_For three long years and moe._

[al]
_Oh master dear I do not cry_
_From fear of wave or wind_.--[MS.]

[37] [Robert was sent back from Gibraltar under the care of Joe Murray
(see letter to Mr. Rushton, August 15, 1809: _Letters_, 1898, i. 242).]

[38] {28} [William Fletcher, Byron's valet. He was anything but
"staunch" in the sense of the song (see Byron's letters of November 12,
1809, and June 28, 1810) (_Letters_, 1898, i. 246, 279); but for twenty
years he remained a loyal and faithful servant, helped to nurse his
master in his last illness, and brought his remains back to England.]

[am] {29}
_Enough, enough, my yeoman good_.
_All this is well to say;_
_But if I in thy sandals stood_
_I'd laugh to get away_.--[MS. erased, D.]

[an]
_For who would trust a paramour_
_Or e'en a wedded feere_--
_Though her blue eyes were streaming o'er_,
_And torn her yellow hair?_--[MS.]

[39] ["I leave England without regret--I shall return to it without
pleasure. I am like Adam, the first convict sentenced to transportation,
but I have no Eve, and have eate