[332] [Cato gave up his wife Martia to his friend Hortensius; but, on the death of the latter, took her back again. This conduct was censured by Cæsar, who observed that Cato had an eye to the main chance. "It was the wealth of Hortensius. He lent the young man his wife, that he might make her a rich widow."--Langhorne's Plutarch, 1838, pp. 539, 547.] {271}[333] [_Othello_, act i. sc. i, lines 19-24.] [gf]---- _though with greater latitude_.--[MS. A.] {272}[gg] ---- _with one foolish woman wed_.--[MS. B.] [334] [The famous _bed_, measuring twelve feet square, to which an allusion is made by Shakespeare in _Twelfth Night_, act iii. sc. 2, line 44, was formerly preserved at the Saracen's Head at Ware, in Hertfordshire. The bed was removed from Ware to the Rye House in 1869.] [gh] _His Highness the sublimest of mankind,_ _The greatest, wisest, bravest, [and the] best,_ _Proved by his edicts somewhat blind,_ _Who saw his virtues as they saw the rest_-- _His Highness quite connubially inclined_ _Had deigned that night to be Gulbeyaz' guest_.--[MS. A.] [335] See Waverley [chap. xx.] [gi] _May look like what I need not mention here_--[MS. A.] {273}[gj] _Are better signs if such things can be signed_.--[MS. A.] [336] [For St. Francis of Assisi, and the "seven great balls of snow," of which "the greatest" was "his wife," see _The Golden Legend_, 1900, v. 221, _vide ante_, p. 32, note 1.] [337] [The words _medio_, etc., are to be found in Ovid., _Metam._, lib. ii. line 137; the doctrine, _Virtus est medium vitiorum_, in Horace, _Epist_., lib. i, ep. xviii. line 9.] [gk] _In the damned line ('t is worth, at least, a curse)_ _Which I have examined too close_.--[MS. erased.] {274}[gl] _Self-love that whetstone of Don Cupid's art_.--[MS. A.] [gm]---- _with love despairs._--[MS. A. erased.] [338] [Lady Noel's will was proved February 22, 1812. She left to the trustees a portrait of Byron ... with directions that it was not to be shown to his daughter Ada till she attained the age of twenty-one; but that if her mother was still living, it was not to be so delivered without Lady Byron's consent.--_Letters_, 1901, vi. 42, note 1.] [gn] _Which diddles you_----.--[MS. A. erased.] [go] _I'm a philosopher; G--d damn them all_.--[MS. B.] [gp] _Bills, women, wives, dogs, horses and mankind_.--[MS. B. erased.] {275}[gq] _Is more than I know, and, so, damn them both_.--[MS. A. erased.] [gr] _When we lie down--wife, spouse, or bachelor_ _By what we love not, to sigh for the light_.--[MS. A. erased.] [gs] _By their infernal bedfellow_----.--[MS. A. erased.]