[GJ] {273}Are better signs if such things can be signed.—[MS. A.]
[336] [For St. Francis of Assisi, and the "seven great balls of snow," of which "the greatest" was "his wife," see The Golden Legend, 1900, v. 221, vide ante, [p. 32, note 1].]
[337] [The words medio, etc., are to be found in Ovid., Metam., lib. ii. line 137; the doctrine, Virtus est medium vitiorum, in Horace, Epist., lib. i, ep. xviii. line 9.]
In the damned line ('t is worth, at least, a curse)
Which I have examined too close.—[MS. erased.]
[GL] {274}Self-love that whetstone of Don Cupid's art.—[MS. A.]
[GM]—— with love despairs.—[MS. A. erased.]
[338] [Lady Noel's will was proved February 22, 1812. She left to the trustees a portrait of Byron ... with directions that it was not to be shown to his daughter Ada till she attained the age of twenty-one; but that if her mother was still living, it was not to be so delivered without Lady Byron's consent.—Letters, 1901, vi. 42, note 1.]
[GN] Which diddles you——.—[MS. A. erased.]