"There Honour comes a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay." [ca] _But Reason's elf in these beholds_----.--[D.] [cb] {51} ----_a fancied throne_ _As if they compassed half that hails their sway_.--[MS. erased.] [cc] ----_glorious sound of grief_.--[D.] [67] [The battle of Albuera (May 16, 1811), at which the English, under Lord Beresford, repulsed Soult, was somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory. "Another such a battle," wrote the Duke, "would ruin us. I am working hard to put all right again." The French are said to have lost between 8000 and 9000 men, the English 4158, the Spaniards 1365.] [cd] _A scene for mingling foes to boast and bleed_.--[D.] [ce] _Yet peace be with the perished_---.--[D. erased.] [cf] _And tears and triumph make their memory long_.--[D. erased.] [cg] ----there sink with other woes_.--[D. erased.] [68] [Albuera was celebrated by Scott, in his _Vision of Don Roderick_. _The Battle of Albuera_, a Poem (anon.), was published in October, 1811.] [ch] {52} _Who sink in darkness_----.--[MS. erased.] [ci] ----_swift Rapines path pursued_.--[MS. D.] [cj] _To Harold turn we as_----.--[MS. erased.] [69] [In this "particular" Childe Harold did not resemble his _alter ego_. Hobhouse and "part of the servants" (Joe Murray, Fletcher, a German, and the "page" Robert Rushton, constituted his "whole suite"), accompanied Byron in his ride across Spain from Lisbon to Gibraltar. (See _Letters_, 1898, i. 224, 236.)] [ck] _Where proud Sevilha_----.--[MS. D.] [70] {53} [Byron, _en route_ for Gibraltar, passed three days at Seville at the end of July or the beginning of August, 1809. By the end of January, 1810, the French had appeared in force before Seville. Unlike Zaragoza and Gerona, the pleasure-loving city, "after some negotiations, surrendered, with all its stores, foundries, and arsenal complete, and on the 1st of February the king [Joseph] entered in triumph" (Napier's _History of the War in the Peninsula_, ii. 295).] [71] [A kind of fiddle with only two strings, played on by a bow, said to have been brought by the Moors into Spain.] [cl] _Not here the Trumpet, but the rebeck sounds_.--[MS. erased.] [cm] _And dark-eyed Lewdness_----.--[MS. erased.] [72] [See _The Waltz: Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 492, note 1.] [cn] {54} _Not in the toils of Glory would ye sweat._--[MS. erased, D.]