[180] {152}["Upon the whole, I think the part of Don Juan in which Lambro's return to his home, and Lambro himself are described, is the best, that is, the most individual, thing in all I know of Lord B.'s works. The festal abandonment puts one in mind of Nicholas Poussin's pictures."—Table Talk of S.T. Coleridge, June 7, 1824.]
[181] {153}[Compare Hudibras, Part I. canto iii. lines 1, 2—
"Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!"
Byron's friend, C.S. Matthews, shouted these lines, con intenzione, under the windows of a Cambridge tradesman named Hiron, who had been instrumental in the expulsion from the University of Sir Henry Smyth, a riotous undergraduate. (See letter to Murray, October 19, 1820.)]
[CN] {154}
All had been open, heart, and open house,
Ever since Juan served her for a spouse.—[MS.]
[182] {155}
["Rispose allor Margutte: a dirtel tosto,