No More Learning

erased. ]

[b] {15} _And see the gewgaws of the glittering girls_. --[MS. M.
erased. ]

[6] ["The words _Queen_ (_vide infra_, line 83) and _pavilion_ occur,
but it is not an allusion to his Britannic Majesty, as you may
tremulously (for the admiralty custom) imagine. This you will one day
see (if I finish it), as I have made Sardanapalus _brave_ (though
voluptuous, as history represents him), and also as _amiable_ as my poor
powers could render him. So that it could neither be truth nor satire on
any living monarch. "--Letter to Murray, May 25, 1821, _Letters_, 1901,
v. 299.

Byron pretended, or, perhaps, really thought, that such a phrase as the
"Queen's wrongs" would be supposed to contain an allusion to the trial
of Queen Caroline (August-November, 1820), and to the exclusion of her
name from the State prayers, etc. Unquestionably if the play had been
put on the stage at this time, the pit and gallery would have applauded
the sentiment to the echo. There was, too, but one "pavilion" in 1821,
and that was not on the banks of the Euphrates, but at Brighton. _Qui
s'excuse s'accuse_. Byron was not above "paltering" with his readers "in
a double sense.
"]

[7] {16} "The Ionian name had been still more comprehensive; having
included the Achaians and the Boeotians, who, together with those to
whom it was afterwards confined, would make nearly the whole of the
Greek nation; and among the Orientals it was always the general name for
the Greeks. "--MITFORD'S _Greece_, 1818. i. 199.

[c] {17} _To Byblis_----. --[MS. M. ]

[d] _I know each glance of those deep Greek-souled eyes_. --[MS. M.
erased. ]

[e] {19}

----_I have a mind_
_To curse the restless slaves with their own wishes_. --[MS. M. erased. ]

[8] {21}[For the occupation of India by Dionysus, see Diod.