It is probable that the originals of Katinka and Dudù were two Circassians who were presented for sale to Nicolas Ernest Kleeman (see his _Voyage de Vienne, etc._, 1780, pp. 142, 143) at Kaffa, in the Crimea. Of the first he writes, "Elle me baisa la main, et par l'ordre de son maître, elle se promena en long et en large, pour me faire remarquer sa taille mince et aisée. Elle avoit un joli petit pied.... Quand elle a en ôté son voile elle a présenté à mes yeux une beauté très-attrayante; ses cheveux étoient blonds argentés; elle avoit de grands yeux bleux, le nez un peu long, et les lèvres appétissantes. Sa figure étoit régulière, son teint blanc, délicat, les joues couvertes d'un charmant vermilion.... La seconde étoit un peu petite, assez grasse, et avoit les cheveux roux, l'air sensuel et revenant." Kleeman pretended to offer terms, took notes, and retired. But the Circassians are before us still.] {281}[350] [_Macbeth_, act ii. sc. 2, line 36.] {284}[gv] _By which no doubt its Baptism came to pass_.--[MS. A. erased.] [gw] _The Devil in Hell might melt but never settle_.--[MS. A. erased.] [351] [Hence the title of the satire, _The Age of Bronze_.] [gx] _For Woman's silence startles more than thunder_.--[MS. A. erased.] {287}[352] [Compare _Beppo_, stanza xxii. line 2, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 166, note 1.] [gy] _With no less true and feminine surprise_.--[MS. A. erased.] {289}[353] [_Julius Cæsar_, act iii. sc. II, line 216.] [354] ["Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura," etc. _Inferno_, Canto I, lines I, 2.] [gz] _Himself in an age when men grow good,_ _As Life's best half is done_----.--[MS. A. erased.] [ha] _But out of reach--a most provoking sight_.--[MS. A. erased.] [hb] _That ere her unreluctant lips could ope_.--[MS. A.] {290}[355] [One of the advocates employed for Queen Caroline in the House of Lords spoke of some of the most puzzling passages in the history of her intercourse with Bergami, as amounting to "odd instances of strange coincidence."--Ed. 1833, xvi. 160.] {291}[hc] _At least as red as the Flamingo's breast_.--[MS. A. erased.] {292}[356] [Byron used Kaff for Caucasus, _vide ante_, _English Bards, etc._, line 1022, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 378, note 3. But there may be some allusion to the fabulous Kaff, "anciently imagined by the Asiatics to surround the world, to bind the horizon on all sides." There was a proverb "From Kaf to Kaf," _i.e._ "the wide world through." See, too, D'Herbelot's _Bibliothèque Orientale_, 1697, art. "Caf."] [357] [See L.A. Seneca, _De Irâ_, lib. ii. cap. 25.] {294}[hd] _Oh thou her lawful grandson Alexander_ _Let not this quality offend_----.--[MS. A. erased.] [358] [Compare _The Age of Bronze_, lines 434, sq., _Poetical Works_, 1901, v. 563, note 1.] {294}[he] _To call a man a whoreson_----.--[MS. A. erased.] [hf] _But a man's grandmother is deemed fair game_.--[MS. A.]