[49] ‘Astarte,’ p. 134.
[50] Lady Caroline Lamb also asserted that Byron showed her some letters which contained some such expression as this: “Oh! B——, if we loved one another as we did in childhood—then it was innocent.” The reader may judge whether such a remark would be more natural from Augusta, or from Mary Chaworth.
[51] October 14, 1814.
[52] See the poem ‘Remember Him’: ‘Thy soul from long seclusion pure.’
‘Ophelia. O heavenly powers, restore him!’
Hamlet, Act III., Scene i.
‘The song, celestial from thy voice,
But sweet to me from none but thine.’
Poetry of Byron, vol. iv.: ‘To Thyrza.’
‘Siede la terra, dove nata fui,
Su la marina dove il Po discende.’
Inferno, Canto V., 97, 98.