[351] {319}["The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."--S. T. Coleridge, _Table Talk_, July 23, 1827.] [352] [Caïna is the first belt of Cocytus, that is, circle ix. of the Inferno, in which fratricides and betrayers of their kindred are immersed up to the neck.] [353] [Virgil.] [co] {319} _Is to recall to mind our happy days_. _In misery, and this thy teacher knows_.--[MS.] [354] [The sentiment is derived from Boethius: "_In omni adversitate fortunæ infelicissimum genus est infortunii, fuisse felicem_."--_De Consolat. Philos. Lib. II. Prosa_ 4. The earlier commentators (_e.g._ Venturi and Biagioli), relying on a passage in the _Convito_ (ii. 16), assume that the "teacher" (line 27) is the author of the sentence, but later authorities point out that "mio dottore" can only apply to Virgil (v. 70), who then and there in the world of shades was suffering the bitter experience of having "known better days." Compare-- "For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kinde of infortune is this, A man to have ben in prosperitee, And it remembren whan it passéd is." _Troilus and Criseyde_, Bk. III. stanza ccxxxiii. lines 1-4. "E perché rimembrare il ben perduto Fa più meschino lo stato presente." Fortiguerra's _Ricciardetto_, Canto XI. stanza lxxxiii. Compare, too-- "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." Tennyson's _Locksley Hall_.] [cp] _I will relate as he who weeps and says_.--[MS.] (The sense is, _I will do even as one who relates while weeping_.) [355] [Byron affixed the following note to line 126 of the Italian: "In some of the editions it is 'dirò,' in others 'faro;'--an essential difference between 'saying' and 'doing' which I know not how to decide--Ask Foscolo--the damned editions drive me mad." In _La Divina Commedia_, Firenze, 1892, and the _Opere de Dante_, Oxford, 1897, the reading is _faro_.] [cq] {321} ----_wholly overthrew_.--[MS.] [cr] _When we read the desired-for smile of her_. [MS, Alternative reading.] [cs]--_by such a fervent lover_.--[MS.] [356] ["A Gallehault was the book and he who wrote it" (A. J. Butler). "Writer and book were Gallehault to our will" (E. J. Plumptre). The book which the lovers were reading is entitled _L'Illustre et Famosa Historia di Lancilotto del Lago_. The "one point" of the original runs thus: "Et la reina ... lo piglia per il mento, et lo bacia davanti a Gallehault, assai lungamente."--Venice, 1558, _Lib. Prim_. cap. lxvi. vol. i. p. 229. The Gallehault of the _Lancilotto_, the shameless "purveyor," must not be confounded with the stainless Galahad of the _Morte d'Arthur_.']