{122}[154] [Strabo (lib. xvi. ed. 1807, p. 1106) gives various explanations of the name, assigning the supposed redness to the refraction of the rays of the vertical sun; or to the shadow of the scorched mountain-sides which form its shores; or, as Ctesias would have it, to a certain fountain which discharged red oxide of lead into its waters. "Abyssinian" Bruce had no doubt that "large trees or plants of coral spread everywhere over the bottom," made the sea "red," and accounted for the name. But, according to Niebuhr, the Red Sea is the Sea of Edom, which, being interpreted, is "Red."] [bo] ---- _just the same_ _As at this moment I should like to do;--_ _But I have done with kisses--having kissed_ _All those that would--regretting those I missed_.--[MS.] {124}[bp] _Fair as the rose just plucked to crown the wreath_, _Soft as the unfledged birdling when at rest_.--[MS.] [155] [Compare _Mazeppa_, lines 829, sq., _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 232.] {125}[bq] _That finer melody was never heard_, _The kind of sound whose echo is a tear_, _Whose accents are the steps of Music's throne_.[*]--[MS.] [*] ["To the Publisher. Take of these varieties which is thought best. I have no choice."] {128}[156] [Moore, quoting from memory from one of Byron's MS. journals, says that he speaks of "making earnest love to the younger of his fair hostesses at Seville, with the help of a dictionary."--_Life,_ p. 93. See, too, letter to his mother, August 11, 1809, _Letters,_ 1898, i. 240.] [br] _Pressure of hands, et cetera--or a kiss_.--[MS. Alternative reading.] [bs] _Italian rather more, having more teachers_.--[MS. erased.] [157] ["In 1813 ... in the fashionable world of London, of which I then formed an item, a fraction, the segment of a circle, the unit of a million, the nothing of something.... I had been the lion of 1812."--Extracts from a Diary, January 19, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 177, 178.] [bt] _foes, friends, sex, kind, are nothing more to me_ _Than a mere dream of something o'er the sea_.--[MS.] {129}[158] [For the same archaism or blunder, compare _Manfred_, act i. sc. 4, line 19, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 132.] [159] [Compare _The Prisoner of Chillon_, line 78, _ibid_., p. 16.] [bu] _Holding her sweet breath o'er his cheek and mouth_, _As o'er a bed of roses, etc_.--[MS.] [160] [_Vide post_, Canto XVI. stanza lxxxvi. line 6, p. 598, note 1.] {130}[bv] _For without heart Love is not quite so good_; _Ceres is commissary to our bellies_, _And Love, which also much depends on food_: _While Bacchus will provide with wine and jellies_-- _Oysters and eggs are also living food_.--[MS.] [bw] _He was her own, her Ocean lover, cast_ _To be her soul's first idol, and its last_.--[MS.] {131}[bx] _And saw the sunset and the rising moon_.--[MS.]