[251] {308} Sylla. [We find the germ of this stanza in the Diary of the evening before it was written: "I mark this day! Napoleon Buonaparte has abdicated the throne of the world. 'Excellent well.' Methinks Sylla did better; for he revenged, and resigned in the height of his sway, red with the slaughter of his foes--the finest instance of glorious contempt of the rascals upon record. Dioclesian did well too--Amurath not amiss, had he become aught except a dervise--Charles the Fifth but so so; but Napoleon worst of all."--_Journal_, April 9, 1814, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 409.] [252] ["Alter '_potent_ spell' to 'quickening spell:' the first (as Polonius says) 'is a vile phrase,' and means nothing, besides being commonplace and Rosa-Matildaish."--Letter to Murray, April 11, 1814, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 68.] [253] {309} [Charles V. resigned the kingdom to his son Philip, circ. October, 1555, and the imperial crown to his brother Ferdinand, August 27, 1556, and entered the Jeronymite Monastery of St. Justus at Placencia in Estremadura. Before his death (September 21, 1558) he dressed himself in his shroud, was laid in his coffin, "joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral."--Robertson's _Charles V._, 1798, iv. 180, 205, 254.] [ip] {310} _But who would rise in brightest day_ _To set without one parting ray?_--[MS.] [iq] ----_common clay_.--[First Proof.] [254] [Added in Proof v.] [255] {311} [Count Albert Adam de Neipperg, born 1774, an officer in the Austrian Army, and, 1811, Austrian envoy to the Court of Stockholm, was presented to Marie Louise a few days after Napoleon's abdication, became her chamberlain; and, according to the _Nouvelle Biographie Universelle_, "plus tard il l'épousa." The count, who is said to have been remarkably plain (he had lost an eye in a scrimmage with the French), died April 12, 1829.] [ir] _And look along the sea;_ _That element may meet thy smile,_ _For Albion kept it free_. _But gaze not on the land for there_ _Walks crownless Power with temples bare_ _And shakes the head at thee_ _And Corinth's Pedagogue hath now_.--[Proof ii.] [is] _Or sit thee down upon the sand_ _And trace with thine all idle hand_.-- [A final correction made in Proof ii.] [256] ["Dionysius at Corinth was yet a king to this."--_Diary_, April 9. Dionysius the Younger, on being for the second time banished from Syracuse, retired to Corinth (B.C. 344), where "he is said to have opened a school for teaching boys to read" (see Plut., _Timal._, c. 14), but not, apparently, with a view to making a living by pedagogy.--Grote's _Hist. of Greece_, 1872, ix. 152.] [257] {312} The cage of Bajazet, by order of Tamerlane.