the virgin-thorn," etc.

_Midsummer Night's Dream_, act i. sc. i, lines 76, 77.]

[19] [Compare--

"The first, last look of Death revealed."

_The Giaour_, line 89, note 2.

Byron was a connoisseur of the incidents and by-play of "sudden death,"
so much so that Goethe was under the impression that he had been guilty
of a venial murder (see his review of _Manfred_ in his paper _Kunst and
Alterthum_, _Letters_, 1901, v. 506, 507). A year after these lines were
written, when he was at Rome (Letter to Murray, May 30, 1817), he saw
three robbers guillotined, and observed himself and them from a
psychological standpoint.

"The ghastly bed of Sin" (lines 182, 183) may be a reminiscence of the
death-bed of Lord Falkland (_English Bards_, etc., lines 680-686;
_Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 351, note 2).]

[20] {22}[Compare--

"And yet I could not die."

_Ancient Mariner_, Part IV. line 262.]

[21] {23}[Compare--

"I wept not; so all stone I felt within."

Dante's _Inferno_, xxxiii. 47 (Cary's translation).]

[22] {24}[Compare "Song by Glycine"--

"A sunny shaft did I behold,
From sky to earth it slanted;
And poised therein a bird so bold--
Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted," etc.

_Zapolya_, by S. T. Coleridge, act ii. sc. 1.]

[23] [Compare--

"When Ruth was left half desolate,
Her Father took another Mate."

_Ruth_, by W. Wordsworth, _Works_, 1889, p. 121.]

[24] ["The souls of the blessed are supposed by some of the Mahommedans
to animate green birds in the groves of Paradise."--Note to Southey's
_Thalaba_, bk. xi. stanza 5, line 13.]

[25] {25}[Compare--

"I wandered lonely as a cloud."

_Works_ of W. Wordsworth, 1889, p. 205.]

[26] [Compare--

"Yet some did think that he had little business here."

_Ibid_., p. 183.

Compare, too, _The Dream_, line 166, _vide post_, p. 39--

"What business had they there at such a time?"]

[27] {26}[Compare--

"He sighed, and turned his eyes, because he knew
'Twas but a larger jail he had in view."

Dryden, _Palamon and Arcite_, bk. i. lines 216, 217.

Compare, too--

"An exile----
Who has the whole wor