Strange state of being!—for 't is still to be—
And who can know all false what then we see?—[MS.]
[240] {192}[Compare the description of the "spacious cave," in The Island, Canto IV. lines 121, sq., Poetical Works, 1901, v. 629, note 1.]
[DQ]—— methought.—[MS. Alternative reading.]
[241] {195}[The reader will observe a curious mark of propinquity which the poet notices, with respect to the hands of the father and daughter. Lord Byron, we suspect, is indebted for the first hint of this to Ali Pacha, who, by the bye, is the original of Lambro; for, when his lordship was introduced, with his friend Hobhouse, to that agreeable mannered tyrant, the Vizier said that he knew he was the Megalos Anthropos (i.e. the great Man), by the smallness of his ears and hands.—Galt. See Byron's letter to his mother, November 12, 1809, Letters, 1898, i. 251.]
And if I did my duty as thou hast,
This hour were thine, and thy young minions last.—[MS.]
[DS] {196}Till further orders should his doom assign.—[MS.]