Shelley's Queen Mab, ii. ibid., p. 107.]
[cf] {239} And with serpents too?—[MS. M.]
[cg] {240} Rather than things to be inhabited.—[MS. M.]
[114] {241}["I have ... supposed Cain to be shown in the rational pre-Adamites, beings endowed with a higher intelligence than man, but totally unlike him in form, and with much greater strength of mind and person. You may suppose the small talk which takes place between him and Lucifer upon these matters is not quite canonical."—Letter to Moore, September 19, 1821, Letters, 1901, v. 368.]
[115] {243}[Compare the "jingle between king and kine," in Sardanapalus, [act v. sc. I, lines 483, 484]. It is hard to say whether Byron inserted and then omitted to erase these blemishes from negligence and indifference, or whether he regarded them as permissible or even felicitous.]
[116] ["Let He." There is no doubt that Byron wrote, or that he should have written, "Let Him.">[
[ch] {246} And being of all things the sole thing sure.—[MS. M.]
[ci] Which seems like water and which I should deem.—[MS. M.]
[117] {247}[Lucifer's candour and disinterested advice are "after" and in the manner of Mephistopheles.]
[118] {250}["If you say that God permitted sin to manifest His wisdom, which shines the more brightly by the disorders which the wickedness of men produces every day, than it would have done in a state of innocence, it may be answered that this is to compare the Deity to a father who should suffer his children to break their legs on purpose to show to all the city his great art in setting their broken bones; or to a king who should suffer seditions and factions to increase through all his kingdom, that he might purchase the glory of quelling them.... This is that doctrine of a Father of the Church who said, 'Felix culpa quæ talem Redemptorem meruit!'"—Bayle's Dictionary, 1737, art. "Paulicians," note B, 25, iv. 515.]