[am] {29} _Enough, enough, my yeoman good_. _All this is well to say;_ _But if I in thy sandals stood_ _I'd laugh to get away_.--[MS. erased, D.] [an] _For who would trust a paramour_ _Or e'en a wedded feere_-- _Though her blue eyes were streaming o'er_, _And torn her yellow hair?_--[MS.] [39] ["I leave England without regret--I shall return to it without pleasure. I am like Adam, the first convict sentenced to transportation, but I have no Eve, and have eaten no apple but what was sour as a crab" (letter to F. Hodgson, Falmouth, June 25, 1809, _Letters_, 1898, i. 230). If this _Confessio Amantis_, with which compare the "Stanzas to a Lady, on leaving England," is to be accepted as _bonâ fide_, he leaves England heart-whole, but for the bitter memory of Mary Chaworth.] [ao] {30} Here follows in the MS., erased:-- _Methinks it would my bosom glad_, _To change my proud estate_, _And be again a laughing lad_ _With one beloved playmate_. _Since youth I scarce have pass'd an hour_ _Without disgust or pain_, _Except sometimes in Lady's bower_, _Or when the bowl I drain_. [40] ["I do not mean to exchange the ninth verse of the 'Good Night.' I have no reason to suppose my dog better than his brother brutes, mankind; and Argus we know to be a fable" (letter to Dallas, September 23, 1811: _Letters_, 1898, ii. 44). Byron was recalling an incident which had befallen him some time previously (see letter to Moore, January 19, 1815): "When I thought he was going to enact Argus, he bit away the backside of my breeches, and never would consent to any kind of recognition, in despite of all kinds of bones which I offered him." See, too, for another thrust at Argus, _Don Juan_, Canto III. stanza xxiii. But he should have remembered that this particular Argus "was half a _wolf_ by the she side." His portrait is preserved at Newstead (see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 280, _Edition de Luxe_). For the expression of a different sentiment, compare _The Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog_ (first published in Hobhouse's _Imit. and Transl_., 1809), and the prefatory inscription on Boatswain's grave in the gardens of Newstead, dated November 16, 1808 (_Life_, p. 73).] [41] {31} [Cintra's "needle-like peaks," to the north-west of Lisbon, are visible from the mouth of the Tagus.] [42] [Compare Ovid, _Amores_, i. 15, and Pliny, _Hist. Nat._, iv. 22. Small particles of gold are still to be found in the sands of the Tagus, but the quantity is, and perhaps always was, inconsiderable.] [ap] ----_where thronging rustics reap_.--[MS. erased.] [aq] {32} _What God hath done_--[MS. D.] [ar] _Those Lusian brutes and earth from worst of wretches purge_.--[MS.]