[339] [The comparison of Queen Caroline to snow may be traced to an article in the _Times_ of August 23, 1820: "The Queen may now, we believe, be considered as triumphing! For the first three years at least of her Majesty's painful peregrinations, she stands before her husband's admiring subjects 'as white as unsunned snows.'" Political bards and lampoonists of the king's party thanked the _Times_ for "giving them that word."] {276}[340] [According to Gronow (_Reminiscences_, 1889, i. 62), a practical joke of Dan Mackinnon's (_vide ante_, p. 69, _footnote_) gave Byron a hint for this scene in the harem: "Lord Wellington was curious about visiting a convent near Lisbon, and the lady abbess made no difficulty. Mackinnon hearing this contrived to get clandestinely within the sacred walls ... at all events, when Lord Wellington arrived Dan Mackinnon was to be seen among the nuns, dressed out in their sacred costume, with his whiskers shaved; and, as he possessed good features, he was declared to be one of the best-looking among those chaste dames. It was supposed that this adventure, which was known to Lord Byron, suggested a similar episode in _Don Juan_."] [341] [Caligula--_vide_ Suetonius, _De XII. Cæs_., C. _Cæs_. Calig., cap, xxx., "Infensus turbæ faventi adversus studium exclamavit: 'Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!'"] [gt] _My wish were general but no worse_.--[MS. A. erased.] [gu] _That Womankind had only one--say heart_.--[MS. A. erased.] {277}[342] The ladies of the Seraglio. [343] [Demetrius Cantemir, hospodar of Moldavia. His work, the _History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire_, was translated into English by N. Tyndal, 1734. He died in 1723.] [344] [Baron de Tott, in his _Memoirs concerning the State of the Turkish Empire_ (1786, i. 72), gives the title of this functionary as _Kiaya Kadun_, i.e. Mistress or Governess of the Ladies.] {278}[345] [The repetition of the same rhyme-word was noted in _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_, July, 1823, vol. xiv. p. 90.] {279}[346] ["I guess, 't was frightful there to see A lady so richly clad as she-- Beautiful exceedingly." _Christabel_, Part I. lines 66-68.] [347] "It is in the adjacent climates of Georgia, Mingrelia, and Circassia, that nature has placed, at least to our eyes, the model of beauty, in the shape of the limbs, the colour of the skin, the symmetry of the features, and the expression of the countenance: the men are formed for action, the women for love."--Gibbon, [_Decline and Fall, etc._, 1825, iii 126.] {280}[348] Padisha is the Turkish title of the Grand Signior. [349] [Katinka was the name of the youngest sister of Theresa, the "Maid of Athens."--See letter to H. Drury, May 3, 1810, _Letters_, 1898, i. 269, note 1; and _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 15, note 1.