[C] It is rumoured Gell is coming out to dig in Olympia. I wish him more success than he had at Athens. According to Lusieri's account, he began digging most furiously without a firmann, but before the resurrection of a single sauce-pan, the Painter countermined and the Way-wode countermanded and sent him back to bookmaking.—[MS. D.]
[See English Bards, etc., lines 1033, 1034: Poetical Works, 1898, i. 379, note 1.]
[eb] Where was thine Ægis, Goddess——.—[MS. D. erased]
[ec] [{110}] ——which it had well behoved.—[MS. D.]
[123] [The Athenians believed, or feigned to believe, that the marbles themselves shrieked out in shame and agony at their removal from their ancient shrines.]
[124] [Byron is speaking of his departure from Spain, but he is thinking of his departure from Malta, and his half-hearted amour with Mrs. Spencer Smith.]
[ed] [{111}] ——that rosy urchin guides.—[MS.]
[ee] Save on that part——.—[MS. erased.]
From Discipline's stern law——.—[MS.]
——keen law——.—[MS. D.]