[kp] {356}
A word's enough to rouse mankind to kill
Some factions phrase by cunning raised and spread.—[MS.]
[kq] {357} ——upon the battle slain.—[Ed. 1831.]
[kr] {358} But not endure the long protracted strife.—[MS. erased.]
[ks] {360} And raged the combat till——.—[MS.]
[282] {361} [Stanza XV. was added after the completion of the first draft of the poem.]
[283] [Compare—
"Il s'excite, il s'empresse, il inspire aux soldats
Cet espoir généreux que lui-même il n'a pas."
Voltaire, Henriade, Chant. viii. lines 127, 128,
Oeuvres Complêtes, Paris, 1837, ii. 325.]
[kt] {362} The stiffening steed is on the dinted earth.—[MS.]