[381] ["He who first downs with the red cross may crave," etc. What vulgarism is this!—"He who lowers,—or plucks down," etc.—Gifford.]
[382] [The historian, George Finlay, who met and frequently conversed with Byron at Mesalonghi, with a view to illustrating "Lord Byron's Siege of Corinth," subjoins in a note the full text of "the summons sent by the grand vizier, and the answer." (See Finlay's Greece under Othoman and Venetian Domination, 1856, p. 266, note 1; and, for the original authority, see Brue's Journal de la Campagne, ... en 1715, Paris, 1871, p. 18.)]
[383] {482}
["Thus against the wall they bent,
Thus the first were backward sent."
—Gifford.]
[qd] With such volley yields like glass.—[MS. G. erased.]
[qe] Like the mowers ridge——.—[MS. G. erased.]
[384] ["Such was the fall of the foremost train."—Gifford.]
[385] {483} [Compare The Deformed Transformed, Part I. sc. 2 ("Song of the Soldiers")—
"Our shout shall grow gladder,
And death only be mute.">[