{162}[184] ["He writes like a man who has that clear perception of the truth of things which is the result of the guilty knowledge of good and evil; and who, by the light of that knowledge, has deliberately preferred the evil with a proud malignity of purpose, which would seem to leave little for the last consummating change to accomplish. When he calculates that the reader is on the verge of pitying him, he takes care to throw him back the defiance of laughter, as if to let him know that all the Poet's pathos is but the sentimentalism of the drunkard between his cups, or the relenting softness of the courtesan, who the next moment resumes the bad boldness of her degraded character. With such a man, who would wish either to laugh or to weep?"--_Eclectic Review_ (Lord Byron's _Mazeppa_), August, 1819, vol. xii. p. 150.] [cr] _For that's the name they like to cant beneath._--[MS.] {163}[cs] _The upholsterer's_ "fiat lux" _had bade to issue._--[MS.] {164}[185] This dress is Moorish, and the bracelets and bar are worn in the manner described. The reader will perceive hereafter, that as the mother of Haidée was of Fez, her daughter wore the garb of the country. [_Vide ante_, p. 160, note 1.] [186] The bar of gold above the instep is a mark of sovereign rank in the women of the families of the Deys, and is worn as such by their female relatives. [_Vide ibid._] [187] This is no exaggeration: there were four women whom I remember to have seen, who possessed their hair in this profusion; of these, three were English, the other was a Levantine. Their hair was of that length and quantity, that, when let down, it almost entirely shaded the person, so as nearly to render dress a superfluity. Of these, only one had dark hair; the Oriental's had, perhaps, the lightest colour of the four. [188] [Compare-- "Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of Light ne'er seen before, As Fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore." Song by Rev. C. Wolfe (1791-1823). Compare, too-- "She was a form of Life and Light That, seen, became a part of sight." _The Giaour_, lines 1127, 1128.] {165}[189] [" ... but Psyche owns no lord-- She walks a goddess from above; All saw, all praised her, all adored, But no one ever dared to love." _The Golden Ass of Apuleius; in English verse, entitled Cupid and Psyche_, by Hudson Gurney, 1799.] [190] [_King John_, act iv. sc. 2, line 11.] {166}[191] ["Richard Crashaw (died 1650), the friend of Cowley, was honoured," says Warton, "with the praise of Pope; who both read his poems and borrowed from them. After he was ejected from his Fellowship at Peterhouse for denying the covenant, he turned Roman Catholic, and died canon of the church at Loretto." Cowley sang his _In Memoriam_--