NOTES TO CANTO I.

Note 1, page 5, stanza v. Brave men were living before Agamemnon. "Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona," &c.-HORACE.

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Note 2, page 11, stanza xvii.

Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar! Description des vertus incomparables de l'huile de Macassar."-See the Advertisement.

Note 3, page 24, stanza xlii.

Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn

Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample. See Longinus, Section 10, “ ἵνα μὴ ἔν τι περὶ αὐτὴν πάθος φαίνηται, παθῶν δὲ σύνοδος.”

Note 4, page 25, stanza xliv.

They only add them all in an appendix.

Fact. There is, or was, such an edition, with all the obnoxious epigrams of Martial placed by themselves at the

end.

Note 5, page 47, stanza lxxxviii.

The bard I quote from does not sing amiss. Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, (I think) the opening of Canto II.; but quote from memory.

Note 6, page 77, stanza cxlviii.

Is it for this that General Count O'Reilly,

Who took Algiers, declares I used him vilely?

Donna Julia here made a mistake. Count O'Reilly did not take Algiers-but Algiers very nearly took him he and his army and fleet retreated with great loss, and not much credit, from before that city in the year 17-.

Note 7, page 111, stanza ccxvi.
My days of love are over, me no more.
Me nec femina, nec puer

Jam, nec spes animi credula mutui,

Nec certare juvat mero ;

Nec vincire novis tempora floribus.

DON JUAN.

CANTO II.

DON JUA N.

CANTO II.

I.

OH ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,

I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,

It mends their morals, never mind the pain: The best of mothers and of educations

In Juan's case were but employ'd in vain, Since in a way, that's rather of the oddest, he Became divested of his native modesty.