[96] [Byron's "orthodoxy" of the word "centinel" was suggested by the Spanish _centinela_, or, perhaps, by Spenser's "centonell" (_Faërie Queene_, bk. i. c. ix. st. 41, line 8).] [df] _And all whereat the wandering soul revolts_ _Which that stern dotard dreamed he could encage_.--[MS. erased.] [dg] {73} _Full from the heart of Joy's delicious springs_ _Some Bitter bubbles up, and even on Roses stings_.--[MS.] [97] [The Dallas Transcript reads "itself," but the MS. and earlier editions "herself."] [dh] {74} _Had buried then his hopes, no more to rise:_ _Drugged with dull pleasure! life-abhorring Gloom_ _Wrote on his faded brow curst Cain's wandering doom_.-- [MS. erased.] _Had buried there_.--[MS. D.] [98] [Byron's belief or, rather, haunting dread, that he was predestined to evil is to be traced to the Calvinistic teaching of his boyhood (compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza lxx. lines 8, 9; and Canto IV. stanza xxxiv. line 6). Lady Byron regarded this creed of despair as the secret of her husband's character, and the source of his aberrations. In a letter to H. C. Robinson, March 5, 1855, she writes, "Not merely from casual expressions, but from the whole tenour of Lord Byron's feelings, I could not but conclude he was a believer in the inspiration of the Bible, and had the gloomiest Calvinistic tenets. To that unhappy view of the relation of the creature to the Creator, I have always ascribed the misery of his life.... Instead of being made happier by any apparent good, he felt convinced that every blessing would be 'turned into a curse' to him. Who, possessed by such ideas, could lead a life of love and service to God or man? They must in a measure realize themselves. 'The worst of it is, I _do_ believe,' he said. I, like all connected with him, was broken against the rock of predestination."] [99] {75} "Stanzas to be inserted after stanza 86th in _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, instead of the song at present in manuscript."-[MS. note to "To Inez."] [The stanzas _To Inez_ are dated January 25, 1810, on which day Byron and Hobhouse visited Marathon. Most likely they were addressed to Theresa Macri, the "Maid of Athens," or some favourite of the moment, and not to "Florence" (Mrs. Spencer Smith), whom he had recently (January 16) declared _emerita_ to the tune of "The spell is broke, the charm is flown." A fortnight later (February 10), Hobhouse, accompanied by the Albanian Vasilly and the Athenian Demetrius, set out for the Negroponte. "Lord Byron was unexpectedly detained at Athens" (_Travels in Albania_, i. 390). (For the stanzas to _The Girl of Cadiz_, which were suppressed in favour of those _To Inez,_ see _Poetical Works_, 1891, p. 14, and vol. iii. of the present issue.)] [100] {76} [Compare Horace, _Odes_, II. xvi. 19, 20-- "Patriæ quis exsul Se quoque fugit?"]