[Alexander O'Reilly, born 1722, a Spanish general of Irish extraction, failed in an expedition against Algiers in 1775, in which the Spaniards lost four thousand men. In 1794 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the forces equipped against the army of the French National Convention. He died March 23, 1794.] [76] [The Italian names have an obvious signification.] [ae] _The chimney--fit retreat for any lover!_--[MS.] {58}[af] ---- _may deplore_.--[Alternative reading. MS. M.] {59}[77] ["Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh" (_Job_ ii. 10).] [78] ["Don't be read aloud."--[H.]--[_Revise._]] {60}[ag] ---- _than be put_ _To drown with Clarence in his Malmsey butt_.--[MS.] [ah] _And reckon up our balance with the devil_.--[MS.] {62}[79] ["Carissimo, do review the whole scene, and think what you would say of it, if written by another."--[H.] "I would say, read 'The Miracle' ['A Tale from Boccace'] in Hobhouse's poems, and 'January and May,' and 'Paulo Purganti,' and 'Hans Carvel,' and 'Joconde.' _These_ are laughable: it is the _serious_--Little's poems and _Lalla Rookh_--that affect seriously. Now Lust is a serious passion, and cannot be excited by the ludicrous."--[B.]--_Marginal Notes in Revise_.] For the "Miracle," see _Imitations and Translations_, 1809, pp. 111-128. "January and May" is Pope's version of Chaucer's _Merchant's Tale_. "Paulo Purganti" and "Hans Carvel" are by Matthew Prior; and for "Joconde" (_Nouvelle Tirée de L'Ariosto_, canto xxviii.) see _Contes et Nouvelles en Vers_, de Mr. de la Fontaine, 1691, i. 1-19.] {63}[80] [Compare "The use made in the French tongue of the word _tact_, to denote that delicate sense of propriety, which enables a man to _feel his way_ in the difficult intercourse of polished society, seems to have been suggested by similar considerations (i.e. similar to those which suggested the use of the word _taste_)."--_Outlines of Moral Philosophy_, by Dugald Stewart, Part I. sect. x. ed. 1855, p. 48. For D'Alembert's use of _tact_, to denote "that peculiar delicacy of perception (which, like the nice touch of a blind man) arises from habits of close attention to those slighter feelings which escape general notice," see _Philosophical Essays_, by Dugald Stewart, 1818, p. 603.] {64}[ai] _With base suspicion now no longer haunted._--[MS.] [81] [For the incident of the shoes, Lord Byron was probably indebted to the Scottish ballad-- "Our goodman came hame at e'en, and hame came he; He spy'd a pair of jack-boots, where nae boots should be, What's this now, goodwife? What's this I see? How came these boots there, without the leave o' me! Boots! quo' she: Ay, boots, quo' he. Shame fa' your cuckold face, and ill mat ye see, It's but a pair of water stoups the cooper sent to me," etc. See James Johnson's _Musical Museum_, 1787, etc., v. 466.] {66}[aj] _Found--heaven knows how--his solitary way._--[MS.]