, First Version,
_Poetical
Works_, 1901, iv.
Byron
he has known invariably through every change of fortune
or of name--and why not you? --_Me_ he has entrapped--are you more
discreet? He has wound the snares of Idenstein around me:--of a reptile,
whom, a few years ago, I would have spurned from my presence, and whom,
in spurning now, I have furnished with fresh venom:--will _you_ be more
patient? --Conrad, Conrad, there are crimes rendered venial by the
occasion, and temptations too exquisite for human fortitude to master or
endure. '"--_Canterbury Tales_, by Sophia and Harriet Lee, 1838, ii.
205. ]
[181] {384}["'These are only the systems of my father . . . My mother
thinks not with him? '"--Ibid. , p. 206. ]
[182] {385} The Ravenstone, "Rabenstein," is the _stone gibbet_ of
Germany, and so called from the ravens perching on it. [Compare
_Manfred_, act iii.
, First Version, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 122. ]
[cr] {387} ----_and a master_. --[MS. M. ]
[183] {388}[Compare--"Cozenage, mere cozenage. " _Merry Wives of
Windsor_, act iv. sc. 5, line 58.
If further proof were needed, the repetition or echo of Shakespearian
phrases, here and elsewhere in the play, would reveal Byron's
handiwork. ]
[184] {389}[Compare _Marino Faliero_, act ii, sc. 2, line 115--"These
swoln silkworms masters. "
Silkworm ("mal bigatto") is an Italianism. See _Poetical Works_, 1901,
iv. 386, note 4. ]
[cs] {391}
----_and hollow_
_Sickness sits caverned in his yellow eye_.
or of name--and why not you? --_Me_ he has entrapped--are you more
discreet? He has wound the snares of Idenstein around me:--of a reptile,
whom, a few years ago, I would have spurned from my presence, and whom,
in spurning now, I have furnished with fresh venom:--will _you_ be more
patient? --Conrad, Conrad, there are crimes rendered venial by the
occasion, and temptations too exquisite for human fortitude to master or
endure. '"--_Canterbury Tales_, by Sophia and Harriet Lee, 1838, ii.
205. ]
[181] {384}["'These are only the systems of my father . . . My mother
thinks not with him? '"--Ibid. , p. 206. ]
[182] {385} The Ravenstone, "Rabenstein," is the _stone gibbet_ of
Germany, and so called from the ravens perching on it. [Compare
_Manfred_, act iii.
, First Version, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 122. ]
[cr] {387} ----_and a master_. --[MS. M. ]
[183] {388}[Compare--"Cozenage, mere cozenage. " _Merry Wives of
Windsor_, act iv. sc. 5, line 58.
If further proof were needed, the repetition or echo of Shakespearian
phrases, here and elsewhere in the play, would reveal Byron's
handiwork. ]
[184] {389}[Compare _Marino Faliero_, act ii, sc. 2, line 115--"These
swoln silkworms masters. "
Silkworm ("mal bigatto") is an Italianism. See _Poetical Works_, 1901,
iv. 386, note 4. ]
[cs] {391}
----_and hollow_
_Sickness sits caverned in his yellow eye_.
