Now to Francesca.—[MS.]
Now to Ginevra.—[Revise of January 6, 1814.]
Now to Medora.—[Revise of January 15, 1814.]
[ht] Yet heed my prayer—my latest accents hear.—[MS.]
[203] [Compare—
"He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend."
Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard.]
[204] {243} [For Bireno's desertion of Olympia, see] Orlando Funoso, Canto X. [stanzas 1-27].
[hu] {244}
Oh! he could bear no more—but madly grasped
Her form—and trembling there his own unclasped.—[MS.]
[205] {247} By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of the oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash like sheet lightning from the water.
[206] {248} [Cape Gallo is at least eight miles to the south of Corone; but Point Lividia, the promontory on which part of the town is built, can hardly be described as a "jutting cape," or as (see line 1623) a "giant shape.">[