[cf] And tears and triumph make their memory long.—[D. erased.]
[cg] ——there sink with other woes.—[D. erased.]
[68] [Albuera was celebrated by Scott, in his Vision of Don Roderick. The Battle of Albuera, a Poem (anon.), was published in October, 1811.]
[ch] [{52}] Who sink in darkness——.—[MS. erased.]
[ci] ——swift Rapines path pursued.—[MS. D.]
[cj] To Harold turn we as——.—[MS. erased.]
[69] [In this "particular" Childe Harold did not resemble his alter ego. Hobhouse and "part of the servants" (Joe Murray, Fletcher, a German, and the "page" Robert Rushton, constituted his "whole suite"), accompanied Byron in his ride across Spain from Lisbon to Gibraltar. (See Letters, 1898, i. 224, 236.)]
[ck] Where proud Sevilha——.—[MS. D.]
[70] [{53}] [Byron, en route for Gibraltar, passed three days at Seville at the end of July or the beginning of August, 1809. By the end of January, 1810, the French had appeared in force before Seville. Unlike Zaragoza and Gerona, the pleasure-loving city, "after some negotiations, surrendered, with all its stores, foundries, and arsenal complete, and on the 1st of February the king [Joseph] entered in triumph" (Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula, ii. 295).]
[71] [A kind of fiddle with only two strings, played on by a bow, said to have been brought by the Moors into Spain.]