[j] {13} _Though more than Hope can claim--Ah! less could I require?_--[MS.] [19] {15} [The MS. does not open with stanza i., which was written after Byron returned to England, and appears first in the Dallas Transcript (see letter to Murray, September 5, 1811). Byron and Hobhouse visited Delphi, December 16, 1809, when the First Canto (see stanza lx.) was approaching completion (_Travels in Albania_, by Lord Broughton, 1858, i. 199).] [k] _Oh, thou of yore esteemed_----.--[D.] [l] _Since later lyres are only strung on earth_.--[D.] [20] [For the substitution of the text for _vars_. ii., iii., see letter to Dallas, September 21, 1811 (_Letters_, 1898, ii. 43).] [m] ----_thy glorious rill_.--[D.] or, --_wooed thee, drank the vaunted rill_.--[D.] [n] {16} _Sore given to revel and to Pageantry_.--[MS. erased.] [o] _He chused the bad, and did the good affright_ _With concubines_----.--[MS.] _No earthly things_----.--[D.] [21] ["We [i.e. Byron and C.S. Matthews] went down [April, 1809] to Newstead together, where I had got a famous cellar, and _Monks'_ dresses from a masquerade warehouse. We were a company of some seven or eight, ... and used to sit up late in our friars' dresses, drinking burgundy, claret, champagne, and what not, out of the _skull-cup_, and all sorts of glasses, and buffooning all round the house, in our conventual garments" (letter to Murray, November 19, 1820. See, too, the account of this visit which Matthews wrote to his sister in a letter dated May 22, 1809 [_Letters_, 1898, i. 150-160, and 153, note]). Moore (_Life_, p. 86) and other apologists are anxious to point out that the Newstead "wassailers" were, on the whole, a harmless crew of rollicking schoolboys "--were, indeed, of habits and tastes too intellectual for mere vulgar debauchery." And as to the "alleged 'harems,'" the "Paphian girls," there were only one or two, says Moore, "among the ordinary menials." But, even so, the "wassailers" were not impeccable, and it is best to leave the story, fact or fable, to speak for itself.] [22] {17} ["Hight" is the preterite of the passive "hote," and means "was called." "Childe Harold he hight" would be more correct. Compare Spenser's _Faërie Queene_, bk. i. c. ix. 14. 9, "She Queene of Faeries hight." But "hight" was occasionally used with the common verbs "is," "was." Compare _The Ordinary_, 1651, act iii. sc. 1-- "... the goblin That is _hight_ Good-fellow Robin." Dodsley (ed. Hazlitt), xii. 253.] [p] _Childe Burun_------.--[MS.]