"'As o'er the cold sepulchral stone.'"

2. "Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulph, November 14, 1809."

3. "Written at Athens, January 16th, 1810--

"'The spell is broke, the charm is flown.'"

4. "Stanzas composed October 11, 1809, during the night in a
thunderstorm, when the guides had lost the road to Zitza, in the range
of mountains formerly called Pindus, in Albania."

On a blank leaf bound up with the MS. at the end of the volume, Byron
wrote--

"Dear D^s.,--This is all that was contained in the MS., but the
outside cover has been torn off by the booby of a binder.
Yours ever,
B."

The volume is bound in smooth green morocco, bordered by a single gilt
line. "MS." in gilt lettering is stamped on the side cover.

II.

COLLATION OF FIRST EDITION, QUARTO, 1812, WITH MS. OF THE FIRST CANTO.

The MS. numbers ninety-one stanzas, the First Edition ninety-three
stanzas.

OMISSIONS FROM THE MS.

Stanza vii. "Of all his train there was a henchman page,"--
Stanza viii. "Him and one yeoman only did he take,"--
Stanza xxii. "Unhappy Vathek! in an evil hour,"--
Stanza xxv. "In golden characters right well designed,"--
Stanza xxvii. "But when Convention sent his handy work,"--
Stanza xxviii. "Thus unto Heaven appealed the people: Heaven,"--
Stanza lxxxviii. "There may you read with spectacles on eyes,"--
Stanza lxxxix. "There may you read--Oh, Phoebus, save Sir John,"--
Stanza xc. "Yet here of Vulpes mention may be made,"--

INSERTIONS IN THE FIRST EDITION.

Stanza i. "Oh, thou! in Hellas deemed of heavenly birth,"--
Stanza viii. "Yet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood,"--
Stanza ix. "And none did love him!--though to hall and bower,"--
Stanza xliii. "Oh, Albuera! glorious field of grief!"--
Stanza lxxxv. "Adieu, fair Cadiz! yea, a long adieu!"--
Stanza lxxxvi. "Such be the sons of Spain, and strange her Fate,"--
Stanza lxxxviii. "Flows there a tear of Pity for the dead?"--
Stanza lxxxix. "Not yet, alas! the dreadful work is done,"--
Stanza xc. "Not all the blood at Talavera shed,"--
Stanza xci. "And thou, my friend!--since unavailing woe,"--
Stanza xcii. "Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most,"--

The MS. of the Second Canto numbers e