["Till Pride and worse Ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King." _Paradise Lost_, iv. 40, 41.] [231] ["Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r; With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonders that they please no more." Johnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes._] {184}[232] [" ... my May of Life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf." _Macbeth_, act v. sc. 3, lines 22, 23.] [dh] _Itself to that fit apathy whose deed._--[MS.] [di] _First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring._--[MS.] [233] [See "Introduction to the _Morgante Maggiore_," _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 280.] [dj] _Pulci being Father_--.--[MS. Alternative reading.] {185}[234] ["Cum canerem reges et prælia, Cynthius aurem Vellit, et admonuit." Virgil, _Ecl._ vi. lines 3, 4.] {186}[dk] ---- _from its mother's knee_ _When its last weaning draught is drained for ever_, _The child divided--it were less to see_, _Than these two from each other torn apart_.--[MS.] [235] [See Herodotus (_Cleobis and Biton_), i. 31. The sentiment is in a fragment of Menander. Ὅν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήσκει νέος [Greek: O(/n oi( theoi\ philou~sin a)pothnê/skei ne/os] or Ὅν γὰρ φιλεῖ θεὸς ἀποθνήσκει νέος. [Greek: O(/n ga\r philei~ theo\s a)pothnê/skei ne/os.] _Menandri at Philomenis reliquiæ_, edidit Augustus Meineke, p. 48. See _Letters_, 1898, ii. 22, note 1. Byron applied the saying to Allegra in a letter to Sir Walter Scott, dated May 4, 1822, _Letters_, 1901, vi. 57.] [236] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza xcvi. line 7. Compare, too, Young's _Night Thoughts_ ("The Complaint," Night I. ed. 1825, p. 5)] {187}[237] [Compare Swift's "little language" in his letter to Stella: _Podefar_, for instance, which is supposed to stand for "Poor dear foolish rogue," and Ppt., which meant "Poor pretty thing."--See _The Journal of Stella_, edited by G.A. Aitken, 1901, xxxv. note 1, and "Journal: March, 1710-11," 165, note 2.] [dl] _For theirs were buoyant spirits, which would bound_ _'Gainst common failings, etc_.--[MS.] {188}[238] [The reference may be to Coleridge's _Kubla Khan_, which, to Medwin's wonderment, "delighted" Byron (_Conversations_, 1824, p. 264). De Quincy's _Confessions of an English Opium Eater_ appeared in the _London Magazine_, October, November, 1821, after Cantos III., IV., V., of _Don Juan_ were published. But, perhaps, he was contrasting the "simpler blisses" of Juan and Haidée with Shelley's mystical affinities and divagations.] [dm] _---- had set their hearts a bleeding._--[MS.] {190}[239]