[13] {19}[The "real Bonivard" might have indulged in and, perhaps, prided himself on this feeble and irritating _paronomasy_; but nothing can be less in keeping with the bearing and behaviour of the tragic and sententious Bonivard of the legend.] [14] [Compare-- "...I'm a forester and breather Of the steep mountain-tops." _Werner_, act iv. sc. 1.] [e] _But why withhold the blow?--he died_. [MS.] [f] {20}_To break or bite_----.--[MS.] [15] [Compare "With the aid of Suleiman's ataghan and my own sabre, we scooped a shallow grave upon the spot which Darvell had indicated" (_A fragment of a Novel by Byron, Letters,_ 1899, iii. Appendix IX. p. 452).] [16] [Compare-- "And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain." _Christabel_, by S. T. Coleridge, part ii. lines 412, 413.] [17] [It is said that his parents handed him over to the care of his uncle, Jean-Aimé Bonivard, when he was still an infant, and it is denied that his father was "literally put to death."] [18] {21}[Kölbing quotes parallel uses of the same expression in _Werner_, act iv. sc. 1; Churchill's _The Times_, line 341, etc.; but does not give the original-- "But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin-thorn," etc. _Midsummer Night's Dream_, act i. sc. i, lines 76, 77.] [19] [Compare-- "The first, last look of Death revealed." _The Giaour_, line 89, note 2. Byron was a connoisseur of the incidents and by-play of "sudden death," so much so that Goethe was under the impression that he had been guilty of a venial murder (see his review of _Manfred_ in his paper _Kunst and Alterthum_, _Letters_, 1901, v. 506, 507). A year after these lines were written, when he was at Rome (Letter to Murray, May 30, 1817), he saw three robbers guillotined, and observed himself and them from a psychological standpoint. "The ghastly bed of Sin" (lines 182, 183) may be a reminiscence of the death-bed of Lord Falkland (_English Bards_, etc., lines 680-686; _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 351, note 2).] [20] {22}[Compare-- "And yet I could not die." _Ancient Mariner_, Part IV. line 262.] [21] {23}[Compare-- "I wept not; so all stone I felt within." Dante's _Inferno_, xxxiii. 47 (Cary's translation).] [22] {24}[Compare "Song by Glycine"-- "A sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted; And poised therein a bird so bold-- Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted," etc. _Zapolya_, by S. T. Coleridge, act ii. sc. 1.] [23] [Compare-- "When Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate." _Ruth_, by W. Wordsworth, _Works_, 1889, p. 121.]