I need hardly remind the
gentlest reader, that such coincidences must be accidental, from the
very
facility
of their detection by reference to so popular a play on
the stage and in the closet as Otway's chef-d'oeuvre.
Byron
]
[fr]
----_whom I know_
_To be as worthless as the dust they trample_.--[MS. M. erased.]
[fs] {453}_With unimpaired but not outrageous grief_.--[Alternative
reading, MS. M.]
[469] {454}[An anachronism, _vide ante_, p. 336.]
[ft] _I am glad to be so_----.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[470] This was the actual reply of Bailli, maire of Paris, to a
Frenchman who made him the same reproach on his way to execution, in the
earliest part of their revolution. I find in reading over (since the
completion of this tragedy), for the first time these six years, "Venice
Preserved," a similar reply on a different occasion by Renault, and
other coincidences arising from the subject.
I need hardly remind the
gentlest reader, that such coincidences must be accidental, from the
very
facility
of their detection by reference to so popular a play on
the stage and in the closet as Otway's chef-d'oeuvre.
["Still crueller was the fate of poor Bailly [Jean Sylvani, born
September 17, 1736], First National President, First Mayor of Paris....
It is the 10th of November, 1793, a cold bitter drizzling rain, as poor
Bailly is led through the streets.... Silent, unpitied, sits the
innocent old man.... The Guillotine is taken down ...
