[GT] My wish were general but no worse.—[MS. A. erased.]
[GU] That Womankind had only one—say heart.—[MS. A. erased.]
[342] {277}The ladies of the Seraglio.
[343] [Demetrius Cantemir, hospodar of Moldavia. His work, the History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire, was translated into English by N. Tyndal, 1734. He died in 1723.]
[344] [Baron de Tott, in his Memoirs concerning the State of the Turkish Empire (1786, i. 72), gives the title of this functionary as Kiaya Kadun, i.e. Mistress or Governess of the Ladies.]
[345] {278} [The repetition of the same rhyme-word was noted in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July, 1823, vol. xiv. p. 90.]
[346] {279}
["I guess, 't was frightful there to see
A lady so richly clad as she—
Beautiful exceedingly."