[ [416] [Mal bigatto, "vile silkworm," is a term of contempt and reproach = "uomo de maligna intenzione," a knave.]
[ [417] {388}[Compare—
"I'll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate."
Macbeth, act iv. sc. I, lines 83, 84.]
[ [418] {390}[For Byron's correction of this statement, vide ante, [p. 366]. The monument of the Doge Vitale Falier (d. 1096) "was at the right side of the principal entrance into the Vestibule." According to G. Meschinello (La Chiesa Ducale, 1753), Ordelafo Falier was buried in the Atrio of St. Mark's. See, too, Venetia città nobilissima ... descritta da F. Sansovino, 1663, pp. 96, 556.]
[ [dk] We thought to make our peers and not our masters.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [dl]——merit such requital.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [419] {391}[Compare—
"I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die."
Richard III., act v. sc. 4, lines 9, 10.]