[179] ["Their manner of dancing is certainly the same that Diana is _sung_ to have danced on the banks of Eurotas. The great lady still leads the dance, and is followed by a troop of young girls, who imitate her steps, and, if she sings, make up the chorus. The tunes are extremely gay and lively, yet with something in them wonderfully soft. The steps are varied according to the pleasure of her that leads the dance, but always in exact time, and infinitely more agreeable than any of our dances."--Lady M.W. Montagu to Pope, April 1, O.S., 1817, _Letters, etc._, 1816, p. 138. The "kerchief-waving" dance is the _Romaika_. See _The Waltz_, line 125, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 492, note 1. See, too, _Voyage Pittoresque_ ... by the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier, 1782, vol. i. Planche 33.] [cm] _That would have set Tom Moore, though married, raving._--[MS.] {152}[180] ["Upon the whole, I think the part of _Don Juan_ in which Lambro's return to his home, and Lambro himself are described, is the best, that is, the most individual, thing in all I know of Lord B.'s works. The festal abandonment puts one in mind of Nicholas Poussin's pictures."--_Table Talk_ of S.T. Coleridge, June 7, 1824.] {153}[181] [Compare _Hudibras_, Part I. canto iii. lines 1, 2-- "Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!" Byron's friend, C.S. Matthews, shouted these lines, _con intenzione_, under the windows of a Cambridge tradesman named Hiron, who had been instrumental in the expulsion from the University of Sir Henry Smyth, a riotous undergraduate. (See letter to Murray, October 19, 1820.)] {154}[cn] _All had been open, heart, and open house,_ _Ever since Juan served her for a spouse._--[MS.] {155}[182] ["Rispose allor Margutte: a dirtel tosto, Io non credo più al nero ch' all' azzurro; Ma nel cappone, o lesso, o vuogli arrosto, E credo alcuna volta anche nel burro; Nella cervogia, e quando io n' ho nel mosto, E molto più nell' aspro che il mangurro; Ma sopra tutto nel buon vino ho fede, E credo che sia salvo chi gli crede." Pulci, _Morgante Maggiore_, Canto XVIII. stanza cxv.] {157}[co] _For instance, if a first or second wife._--[MS.] {159}[cp] _And send him forth like Samson strong in blindness_.--[MS. D.] _And make him Samson-like--more fierce with blindness_.--[MS. M.] [cq] _Not so the single, deep, and wordless ire,_ _Of a strong human heart_--.--[MS.] {160}[183] ["Almost all _Don Juan_ is _real_ life, either my own, or from people I knew. By the way, much of the description of the _furniture_, in Canto Third, is taken from _Tully's Tripoli_ (pray _note this_), and the rest from my own observation. Remember, I never meant to conceal this at all, and have only not stated it, because _Don Juan_ had no preface, nor name to it."--Letter to Murray, August 23, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 346.