[ [fi] He is a Sovereign and hath swayed the state.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [459] {445}[The accepted spelling is "aerie." The word is said to be derived from the Latin atrium. The form eyry, or eyrie, was introduced by Spelman (Gl. 1664) to countenance an erroneous derivation from the Saxon eghe, an egg. N. Eng. Dict., art. "aerie.">[
[ [fj] Of his high aiery——.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [460] [Vide Suetonius, De XII. Cæsaribus, lib. iv. cap. 56, ed. 1691, p. 427. Angiolina might surely have omitted this particular instance of the avenging vigilance of "Great Nemesis.">[
[ [461] {446}[The story is told in Plutarch's Alexander, cap. 38. Compare—
"And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
Thais led the way,
To light him to his prey,
And like another Helen, fired another Troy."
Dryden's Alexanders Feast, vi. lines 25-28.]
[ [462] [Byron's imagination was prone to dwell on the "earthworm's slimy brood." Compare Childe Harold, Canto II. stanzas v., vi. Dallas (Recollections of Lord Byron, 1824, p. 124) once ventured to remind his noble connection "that although our senses make us acquainted with the chemical decomposition of our bodies," there were other and more hopeful considerations to be entertained. But Byron was obdurate, "and the worms crept in and the worms crept out" as unpleasantly as heretofore.]
[ [fk]——you call your duty.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [fl] {447}——never heard of.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]