[355] [For a biographical notice of Ada Lady Lovelace, including letters, elsewhere unpublished, to Andrew Crosse, see Ada Byron, von E. Kölbing, Englische Studien, 1894, xix. 154-163.]

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End of Canto Third.
Byron. July 4, 1816, Diodati.—[C.]

NOTES
TO
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.
CANTO III.

1.

In "pride of place" here last the Eagle flew.

[Stanza xviii.] line 5.

"Pride of place" is a term of falconry, and means the highest pitch of flight. See Macbeth, etc.—

"An eagle towering in his pride of place
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed."