FOOTNOTES
[1] The italics are mine.
[2] The italics are mine.
[3] In Lady Blessington's 'Memoirs' this name is given Charlemont; in the late 'Temple Bar' article on the character of Lady Byron it is given Clermont. I have followed the latter.
[4] The italics are mine.
[5] In Lady Blessington's conversations with Lord Byron, just before he went to Greece, she records that he gave her this poem in manuscript. It was published in her 'Journal.'
[6] Vol. vi. p. 22.
[7] 'Byron's Miscellany', vol. ii. p. 358. London, 1853.
[8] The italics are mine.
[9] Lord Byron says, in his observations on an article in 'Blackwood': 'I recollect being much hurt by Romilly's conduct: he (having a general retainer for me) went over to the adversary, alleging, on being reminded of his retainer, that he had forgotten it, as his clerk had so many. I observed that some of those who were now so eagerly laying the axe to my roof-tree might see their own shaken. His fell and crushed him.'