ytime, yet with the setting of the sun
the feasting commences."--_Travels in Albania_, i. 66. "The Ramadan or
Rhamazan is the ninth month of the Mohammedan year. As the Mohammedans
reckon by lunar time, it begins each year eleven days earlier than in
the preceding year, so that in thirty-three years it occurs successively
in all the seasons."--_Imp. Dictionary_.]

[159] [The feast was spread within the courtyard, "in the part farthest
from the dwelling," and when the revelry began the "immense large
gallery" or corridor, which ran along the front of the palace and was
open on one side to the court, was deserted. "Opening into the gallery
were the doors of several apartments," and as the servants passed in and
out, the travellers standing in the courtyard could hear the sound of
voices.--_Travels in Albania_, i. 93.]

[fg] {138}
----_even for health to move_.--[MS.]
_She saves for one_----.--[MS. erased.]

[fh]
_For boyish minions of unhallowed love_
_The shameless torch of wild desire is lit_,
_Caressed, preferred even to woman's self above_,
_Whose forms for Nature's gentler errors fit_
_All frailties mote excuse save that which they commit_.
--[MS. D. erased.]

[160] [For an account of Ali Pasha (1741-1822), see _Letters_, 1898, i.
246, note.]

[161] [In a letter to his mother, November 12, 1809, Byron writes, "He
[Ali] said he was certain I was a man of birth, because I had small
ears, curling hair, and little white hands. ... He told me to consider
him as a father whilst I was in Turkey, and said he looked on me as his
son. Indeed, he treated me like a child, sending me almonds and sugared
sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats, twenty times a day." Many years after, in
the first letter _On Bowles' Strictures_, February 7, 1821, he
introduces a reminiscence of Ali: "I never judge from manners, for I
once had my pocket picked by the civillest gentleman I ever met with;
and one of the mildest persons I ever saw was Ali Pasha" (_Life_, p.
689).]

[fi] {139} _Delights to mingle with the lips of youth_.--[MS. D.
erased.]

[162] [Anacreon sometimes bewails, but more often defies old age.
(_Vide_ Carmina liv., xi., xxxiv.)

The paraphrase "Teian Muse" recurs in the song, "The Isles of Greece,"
_Don Juan_, Canto III.]

[fj] _But 'tis those ne'er forgotten acts of ruth_.--[MS. D.]

[163] [In the first edition the reading (see _var_. ii.)