Childe Harold, Canto I. stanza xii. lines 3-6, Poetical Works, 1898, i. 24.]

[100] {87}["To breathe a vein ... to lance it so as to let blood." Compare—

"Rosalind. Is the fool sick?

Biron. Sick at heart.

Ros. Alack, let it blood."

Love's Labour's Lost, act ii. sc. I, line 185.]

[BB]

Sea-sickness death; then pardon Juan—how else

Keep down his stomach ne'er at sea before?—[MS. M.]

[101] ["With regard to the charges about the Shipwreck, I think that I told you and Mr. Hobhouse, years ago, that there was not a single circumstance of it not taken from fact: not, indeed, from any single shipwreck, but all from actual facts of different wrecks."—- Letter to Murray, August 23, 1821. In the Monthly Magazine, vol. liii. (August, 1821, pp. 19-22, and September, 1821, pp. 105-109), Byron's indebtedness to Sir G. Dalzell's Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea (1812, 8vo) is pointed out, and the parallel passages are printed in full.]