[23] [William, fifth Lord Byron (the poet's grand-uncle), mortally wounded his kinsman, Mr. Chaworth, in a duel which was fought, without seconds or witnesses, at the Star and Garter Tavern, Pall Mall, January 29, 1765. He was convicted of wilful murder by the coroner's jury, and of manslaughter by the House of Lords; but, pleading his privilege as a peer, he was set at liberty. He was known to the country-side as the "wicked Lord," and many tales, true and apocryphal, were told to his discredit (_Life of Lord Byron_, by Karl Elze, 1872, pp. 5, 6).] [q] ------_nor honied glose of rhyme_.--[D. pencil.] [r] _Childe Burun_------.--[MS.] [s] {18} _For he had on the course too swiftly run_.--[MS. erased.] [t] _Had courted many_----.--[MS. erased.] [24] [Mary Chaworth. (Compare "Stanzas to a Lady, on leaving England," passim: _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 285.)] [u] ----_Childe Burun_----.--[MS.] [25] {19} [Compare _The Lay of the Last Minstrel_, Canto I, stanza ix. 9-- "And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tears to flow."] [v] _And strait he fell into a reverie_.--[MS.] ----_sullen reverie_.--[D.] [26] [_Vide post_, stanza xi. line 9, note.] [w] _Strange fate directed still to uses vile_.--[MS. erased.] [x] _Now Paphian jades were heard to sing and smile_.--[MS. erased.] _Now Paphian nymphs_----.--[D. pencil.] [27] [The brass eagle which was fished out of the lake at Newstead in the time of Byron's predecessor contained, among other documents, "a grant of full pardon from Henry V. of every possible crime ... which the monks might have committed previous to the 8th of December preceding (_Murdris_, per ipsos _post decimum nonum Diem Novembris_, ultimo præteritum perpetratis, si quæ fuerint, _exceptis_)" (_Life_, p. 2, note). The monks were a constant source of delight to the Newstead "revellers." Francis Hodgson, in his "Lines on a Ruined Abbey in a Romantic Country" (_Poems_, 1809), does not spare them-- "'Hail, venerable pile!' whose ivied walls Proclaim the desolating lapse of years: And hail, ye hills, and murmuring waterfalls, Where yet her head the ruin'd Abbey rears. No longer now the matin tolling bell, Re-echoing loud among the woody glade, Calls the fat abbot from his drowsy cell, And warns the maid to flee, if yet a maid. No longer now the festive bowl goes round, Nor monks get drunk in honour of their God."] [y] {20} The original MS. inserts two stanzas which were rejected during the composition of the poem:--