_Abbot_. Alas! how pale thou art--thy lips are white-- And thy breast heaves--and in thy gasping throat The accents rattle: Give thy prayers to Heaven-- Pray--albeit but in thought,--but die not thus. _Man_. 'Tis over--my dull eyes can fix thee not; But all things swim around me, and the earth Heaves as it were beneath me. Fare thee well-- Give me thy hand. _Abbot_. Cold--cold--even to the heart-- But yet one prayer--Alas! how fares it with thee? 150 _Man_. Old man! 'tis not so difficult to die.[171] [MANFRED _expires._ _Abbot_. He's gone--his soul hath ta'en its earthless flight; Whither? I dread to think--but he is gone.[172] FOOTNOTES: [106] {86}[The MS. of _Manfred_, now in Mr. Murray's possession, is in Lord Byron's handwriting. A note is prefixed: "The scene of the drama is amongst the higher Alps, partly in the Castle of Manfred, and partly in the mountains." The date, March 18, 1817, is in John Murray's handwriting.] [107] [So, too, Faust is discovered "in a high--vaulted narrow Gothic chamber."] [108] [Compare _Faust,_ act i. sc. 1-- "Alas! I have explored Philosophy, and Law, and Medicine, And over deep Divinity have pored, Studying with ardent and laborious zeal." Anster's Faust, 1883, p. 88.] [ap] {86} _Eternal Agency!_ _Ye spirits of the immortal Universe!_--[MS. M.] [aq] _Of inaccessible mountains are the haunts_.--[MS. M.] [109] [_Faust_ contemplates the sign of the macrocosm, and makes use of the sign of the Spirit of the Earth. _Manfred's_ written charm may have been "Abraxas," which comprehended the Greek numerals 365, and expressed the all-pervading spirits of the Universe.] [110] [The Prince of the Spirits is Arimanes, _vide post,_ act ii. sc. 4, line 1, _seq._] [111] {87}[Compare _Childe Harold,_ Canto I. stanza lxxxiii. lines 8, 9.] [ar] _Which is fit for my pavilion_.--[MS. M.] [as] _Or makes its ice delay_.--[MS. M.] [112] {89}[Compare "Creatures of clay, I receive you into mine empire."--_Vathek,_ 1887, p. 179.] [at] {90}_The Mind which is my Spirit--the high Soul._--[MS. erased.] [au] _Answer--or I will teach ye._--[MS. M.] [113] [So the MS., in which the word "say" clearly forms part of the _Spirit's_ speech.] [114] {91}[Compare "Stanzas for Music," i. 3, _Poetical Works,_ 1900, iii 435.] [115] [It is evident that the female figure is not that of Astarte, but of the subject of the "Incantation."] [116] [The italics are not indicated in the MS.] [117] N.B.--Here follows the "Incantation," which being already transcribed and (I suppose) published I do not transcribe again at present, because you can insert it in MS. here--as it belongs to this place: with its conclusion the 1st Scene closes.