[cl] Not here the Trumpet, but the rebeck sounds.—[MS. erased.]
[cm] And dark-eyed Lewdness——.—[MS. erased.]
[72] [See The Waltz: Poetical Works, 1898, i. 492, note 1.]
[cn] [{54}] Not in the toils of Glory would ye sweat.—[MS. erased, D.]
[73] [The scene is laid on the heights of the Sierra Morena. The travellers are looking across the "long level plain" of the Guadalquivir to the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with their "hill-forts ...perched everywhere like eagles' nests" (Ford's Handbook for Spain, i. 252). The French, under Dupont, entered the Morena, June 2, 1808. They stormed the bridge at Alcolea, June 7, and occupied Cordoba, but were defeated at Bailen, July 19, and forced to capitulate. Hence the traces of war. The "Dragon's nest" (line 7) is the ancient city of Jaen, which guards the skirts of the Sierras "like a watchful Cerberus." It was taken by the French, but recaptured by the Spanish, early in July, 1808 (History of the War in the Peninsula, i. 71-80).]
[74] [{55}] [The Sierra Morena gets its name from the classical Montes Mariani, not, as Byron seems to imply, from its dark and dusky aspect.]
[co] [{56}] ——the never-changing watch.—[MS. D.]
[cp] The South must own——.—[MS. D.]
[cq] When soars Gaul's eagle——.—[MS. D.]
[75] [As time went on, Byron's sentiments with regard to Napoleon underwent a change, and he hesitates between sympathetic admiration and reluctant disapproval. At the moment his enthusiasm was roused by Spain's heroic resistance to the new Alaric, "the scourger of the world," and he expresses himself like Southey "or another" (vide post, Canto III., [pp. 238, 239]).]