[HA] But out of reach—a most provoking sight.—[MS. A. erased.]
[HB] That ere her unreluctant lips could ope.—[MS. A.]
[355] {290}[One of the advocates employed for Queen Caroline in the House of Lords spoke of some of the most puzzling passages in the history of her intercourse with Bergami, as amounting to "odd instances of strange coincidence."—Ed. 1833, xvi. 160.]
[HC] {291}At least as red as the Flamingo's breast.—[MS. A. erased.]
[356] {292}[Byron used Kaff for Caucasus, vide ante, English Bards, etc., line 1022, Poetical Works, 1898, i. 378, note 3. But there may be some allusion to the fabulous Kaff, "anciently imagined by the Asiatics to surround the world, to bind the horizon on all sides." There was a proverb "From Kaf to Kaf," i.e. "the wide world through." See, too, D'Herbelot's Bibliothèque Orientale, 1697, art. "Caf.">[
[357] [See L.A. Seneca, De Irâ, lib. ii. cap. 25.]
[HD] {293}
Oh thou her lawful grandson Alexander
Let not this quality offend——.—[MS. A. erased.]
[358] [Compare The Age of Bronze, lines 434, sq., Poetical Works, 1901, v. 563, note 1.]