[45] {57} [Busby's translation of Lucretius (_The Nature of Things_, a Didascalie Poem) was published in 1813. Byron was a subscriber, and is mentioned in the preface as "one of the most distinguished poets of the age." The passage in question is, perhaps, taken from the Second Book, lines 880, 881, which Busby renders-- "Just as she quickens fuel into fire, And bids it, flaming, to the skies aspire."] [46] {59} [The Leasowes, the residence of the poet Shenstone, is near the village of Halesowen, in Shropshire.] [47] [See Dryden's _Cymon and Iphigenia_, lines 84, 85.] [48] [The sequel of a temporary liaison formed by Lord Byron during his career in London, occasioned this impromptu. On the cessation of the connection, the fair one [Lady C. Lamb: see _Letters_, 1898, ii. 451] called one morning at her quondam lover's apartments. His Lordship was from home; but finding _Vathek_ on the table, the lady wrote in the first page of the volume the words, "Remember me!" Byron immediately wrote under the ominous warning these two stanzas.--_Conversations of Lord Byron_, by Thomas Medwin, 1824, pp. 329, 330. In Medwin's work the euphemisms _false_ and _fiend_ are represented by asterisks.] [49] {60} ["To Bd., Feb. 22, 1813. "'Remember thee,' nay--doubt it not-- Thy Husband too may '_think_' of thee! By neither canst thou be forgot, Thou false to him--thou fiend to me! "'Remember thee'? Yes--yes--till Fate In Lethe quench the guilty dream. Yet then--e'en then--Remorse and _Hate_ Shall vainly quaff the vanquished stream." From a MS. (in the possession of Mr. Hallam Murray) not in Byron's handwriting.] [bs] {61} ----_not confessed thy power_.--[MS. M. erased.] [bt] ----_still forgets the hour_.--[MS. M. erased.] [bu] {64} _Song_.--[_Childe Harold_, 1814.] [50] ["I send you some lines which may as well be called 'A Song' as anything else, and will do for your new edition."--B.--(MS. M.)] [bv] _But her who not_----.--[MS. M.] [bw] {65} _To Ianthe_.--[MS. M. Compare "The Dedication" to _Childe Harold_.] [51] {67} [It is possible that these lines, as well as the Sonnets "To Genevra," were addressed to Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster.--See _Letters,_ 1898, ii. 2, note 1; and _Letters,_ 1899, iii. 8, note 1.] [bx] _To him who loves and her who loved_.--[MS. M.] [by] _That trembling form_----.--[MS. M.] [bz] _Resigning thee, alas! I lost_ _Joys bought too dear, if bright with tears,_ _Yet ne'er regret the pangs it cost_.--[MS. M. erased.] [ca] _And crush_----.--[MS. M.] [cb] _And I been not unworthy thee_.--[MS. M.] [cc] _Long may thy days_----.--[MS. M.] [cd] _Might make my hope of guilty joy_.--[MS.]