(See note by Rev. E. C. Owen, _Childe
Harold_, 1897, p. 175.)]

[193] ["The wild thyme is in great abundance; but there are only two
stands of bee-hives on the mountains, and very little of the real honey
of Hymettus is to be now procured at Athens.... A small pot of it was
shown to me as a rarity" (_Travels in Albania_, i. 341). There is now, a
little way out of Athens, a "honey-farm, where the honey from Hymettus
is prepared for sale" (_Handbook for Greece_, p. 500).]

[fv] ----_Pentele's marbles glare_.--[MS. D. erased.]

[194] [Stanzas lxxxviii.-xc. are not in the MS., but were first included
in the seventh edition, 1814.]

[195] [Byron and Hobhouse, after visiting Colonna, slept at Keratea, and
proceeded to Marathon on January 25, returning to Athens on the
following day.]

[fw] {158} _Preserve alike its form_----.--[MS. L.]

[fx] _When uttered to the listener's eye_----.--[MS. L.]

[fy] _The host, the plain, the fight_----.--[MS. L.]

[fz] _The shattered Mede who flies with broken bow_.--[MS. L.]

[196] ["The plain of Marathon is enclosed on three sides by the rocky
arms of Parnes and Pentelicus, while the fourth is bounded by the sea."
After the first rush, when the victorious wings, where the files were
deep, had drawn together and extricated the shallower and weaker centre,
which had been repulsed by the Persians and the Sakae, "the pursuit
became general, and the Persians were chased to their ships, ranged in
line along the shore. Some of them became involved in the impassable
marsh, and there perished." (See _Childe Harold_, edited by H. F. Tozer,
1885, p. 253; Grote's _History of Greece_, iv. 276. See, too, _Travels
in Albania_, i. 378-384.)]

[ga] _To tell what Asia troubled but to hear_.--[MS. L.]

[197] [See note to Canto II. stanzas i.-xv., pp. 99, 100.]

[gb] _Long to the remnants_--.----[D.]

[198] [The "Ionian blast" is the western wind that brings the voyager
across the Ionian Sea.]

[199] {160} [The original MS. closes with this stanza.]

[gc] _Which heeds nor stern reproach_----.--[D.]

[gd] {161}_Would I had ne'er returned_----.--[D.]

[200]
"To Mr. Dallas.
The 'he' refers to 'Wanderer' and anything is better than
_I I I I_ always _I_.
Yours,
BYRON."
[4th Revise B.M.]

[ge] _But Time the Comforter shall come at last_.--[MS. erased.]

[201] [Compare Young's _Night Thoughts_ ("The Comp