Doth Heaven forgive her own? is Satan saved?
But be it so?—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [405] [There is no MS. authority for "From wrath eternal.">[
[ [dg] Oh do not speak thus rashly.-[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [406] {377}
["Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust."
'Tis Pity she's a Whore, by John Ford. Lamb's Dramatic Poets, 1835, i. 265.]
[ [407] {378}[The Dogaressa Aluica was the daughter of Nicolò Gradenigo. It was the Doge who inherited the "blood of Loredano" through his mother Beriola.]
[ [408] {381}[The lines "and the hour hastens" to "whate'er may urge" are not in the MS.]
[ [dh] {382} Where Death sits throned——.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [409] [Filippo Calendario, who is known to have been one of the principal conspirators, was a master stone-cutter, who worked as a sculptor, and ranked as such. The tradition, to which Byron does not allude, that he was an architect, and designed the new palace begun in 1354, may probably be traced to a document of the fifteenth century, in which Calendario is described as commissario, i.e. executor, of Piero Basejo, who worked as a master stone-cutter for the Republic. The Maggior Consiglio was its own architect, and would not have empowered a tagliapietra, however eminent, to act on his own responsibility.—La Congiura, pp. 76, 77.]