[85] [It was seldom that Byron's memory played him false, but here a vague recollection of a Shakespearian phrase has beguiled him into a blunder. He is thinking of Hamlet's jibe on the corruption of manners, "The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe" (act v. sc. 1, line 150), and he forgets that a kibe is not a heel or a part of a heel, but a chilblain.] [cy] ----_though in lieu_ _Of true devotion monkish temples share_ _The hours misspent, and all in turns is Love or Prayer_.---- [_MS. erased_.] [cz] ----_or rule the hour in turns_.----[D.] [86] {65} [As he intimates in the Preface to _Childe Harold_, Byron had originally intended to introduce "variations" in his poem of a droll or satirical character. Beattie, Thomson, Ariosto, were sufficient authorities for these humorous episodes. The stanzas on the Convention of Cintra (stanzas xxv.-xxviii. of the MS.), and the four stanzas on Sir John Carr; the concluding stanzas of the MS., which were written in this lighter vein, were suppressed at the instance of Dallas, or Murray, or Gifford. From a passage in a letter to Dallas (August 21, 1811), it appears that Byron had almost made up his mind to leave out "the two stanzas of a buffooning cast on London's Sunday" (_Letters_, 1898, i. 335). But, possibly, owing to their freedom from any compromising personalities, or because wiser counsels prevailed, they were allowed to stand, and continued (wrote Moore in 1832) to "disfigure the poem."] [87] [A whiskey is a light carriage in which the traveller is _whisked_ along.] [da] {66} _And humbler gig_----.--[MS.] [db] _And droughty man alights and roars for "Roman Purl."_[§]--[MS. D.] [§] A festive liquor so called. Query why "Roman"? [Query if "Roman"? "'Purl Royal,' Canary wine with a dash of the tincture of wormwood" (Grose's _Class. Dict._).] ----_for Punch or Purl_.--[D.] [dc] _Some o'er thy Thames convoy_----.--[MS. D.]