ed by
Spain's heroic resistance to the new Alaric, "the scourger of the
world," and he expresses himself like Southey "or another" (_vide post_,
Canto III., pp. 238, 239).]

[76] {57} ["A short two-edged knife or dagger ... formerly worn at the
girdle" (_N. Eng. Dict._, art. "Anlace"). The "anlace" of the Spanish
heroines was the national weapon, the _punal_, or _cuchillo_, which was
sometimes stuck in the sash (_Handbook for Spain_, ii. 803).]

[77] [Compare _Macbeth_, act v. sc. 5, line 10--

"The Time has been, my senses would have cooled
To hear a night-shriek."]

[cr]
-----_the column-scattering bolt afar,_
_The falchion's flash_--[MS. erased, D.]

[cs] {59}
_The seal Love's rosy finger has imprest_
_On her fair chin denotes how soft his touch:_
_Her lips where kisses make voluptuous nest_.--[MS. erased.]

[78] [Writing to his mother (August 11, 1809), Byron compares "the
Spanish style" of beauty to the disadvantage of the English: "Long black
hair, dark languishing eyes, _clear_ olive complexions, and forms more
graceful in motion than can be conceived by an Englishman ... render a
Spanish beauty irresistible" (_Letters_, 1898, i. 239). Compare, too,
the opening lines of _The Girl of Cadiz_, which gave place to the
stanzas _To Inez_, at the close of this canto--

"Oh never talk again to me
Of northern climes and British ladies."

But in _Don Juan_, Canto XII. stanzas lxxiv.-lxxvii., he makes the
_amende_ to the fair Briton--

"She cannot step as doth an Arab barb,
Or Andalusian girl from mass returning.

* * * * *

But though the soil may give you time and trouble,
Well cultivated, it will render double."]

[ct] {60}

_Beauties that need not fear a broken vow_.--[MS. erased.]
----_a lecher's vow_.--[MS.]

[79] [The summit of Parnassus is not visible from Delphi or the
neighbourhood. Before he composed "these stanzas" (December 16), (see
note 13.B.) at the foot of Parnassus, Byron had first surveyed its
"snow-clad" majesty as he sailed towards Vostizza (on the southern shore
of the Gulf of Corinth), which he reached on the 5th, and quitted on the
14th of December. "The Echoes" (line 8) which were celebrated by the
ancients (Justin, _Hist._, lib. xxiv. cap. 6), are those made by the
Phaedriades, or "gleaming peaks," a "lofty precipitous escarpment of red
and grey limestone" at th