[4] [The _N. Engl. Dict_., art. "Ban," gives this passage as the earliest instance of the use of the verb "to ban" in the sense of "to interdict, to prohibit." Exception was taken to this use of the word in the _Crit. Rev_., 1817, Series V. vol. iv. p. 571.] [5] {14}[Compare the epitaph on the monument of Richard Lord Byron, in the chancel of Hucknall-Torkard Church, "Beneath in a vault is interred the body of Richard Lord Byron, who with the rest of his family, being seven brothers," etc. (Elze's _Life of Lord Byron_, p. 4, note 1). Compare, too, Churchill's _Prophecy of Famine_, lines 391, 392-- "Five brothers there I lost, in manhood's pride, Two in the field and three on gibbets died." The Bonivard of history had but two brothers, Amblard and another.] [c] _Braving rancour--chains--and rage_.--[MS.] [6] ["This is really so: the loop-holes that are partly stopped up are now but long crevices or clefts, but Bonivard, from the spot where he was chained, could, perhaps, never get an idea of the loveliness and variety of radiating light which the sunbeam shed at different hours of the day.... In the morning this light is of luminous and transparent shining, which the curves of the vaults send back all along the hall. Victor Hugo (_Le Rhin_, ... Hachette, 1876, I. iii. pp. 123-131) describes this ... 'Le phénomène de la grotto d'azur s'accomplit dans le souterrain de Chillon, et le lac de Genève n'y réussit pas moins bien que la Méditerranée.' During the afternoon the hall assumes a much deeper and warmer colouring, and the blue transparency of the morning disappears; but at eventide, after the sun has set behind the Jura, the scene changes to the deep glow of fire ..."--_Guide to the Castle of Chillon_, by A. Naef, architect, 1896, pp, 35, 36.] [7] {15}[Compare-- "One little marshy spark of flame." _Def. Trans_., Part I. sc. I. Kölbing notes six other allusions in Byron's works to the "will-o'-the-wisp," but omits the line in the "Incantation" (_Manfred_, act i. sc. I, line 195)-- "And the wisp on the morass," which the Italian translator would have rendered "bundle of straw" (see Letter to Hoppner, February 28, 1818, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 204, _note 2, et post_ p. 92, note 1).]