Nor trace, nor tidings of his doom declare

Where lives his grief, or perish'd his despair!

Long mourn'd his band whom none could mourn beside;
And fair the monument they gave his bride:
For him they raise not the recording stone-
His death yet dubious, deeds too widely known;
He left a Corsair's name to other times,

Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.(17)

NOTES.

The time in this poem may seem too short for the occurrences, but the whole of the Egean isles are within a few hours' sail of the continent, and the reader must be kind enough to take the wind as I have often found it.

NOTE 1, page 152, line 12.
Of fair Olympia loved and left of old.

Orlando, Canto 10.

NOTE 2, page 157, line 14.

Around the waves' phosphoric brightness broke.

By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of the oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash like sheetlightning from the water.

Coffee.

Pipe.

NOTE 3, page 162, line 20.
Though to the rest the sober berry's juice.

NOTE 4, page 162, line 22.

The long Chibouque's dissolving cloud supply.

Dancing girls.

NOTE 5, page 162, line 23.
While dance the Almas to wild minstrelsy.

NOTE to Canto II. page 163, line 7.

It has been objected that Conrad's entering disguised as a spy is out of nature-Perhaps so. I find something not unlike it in history.

"Anxious to explore with his own eyes the state of the Vandals, Majorian ventured, after disguising the colour of his hair, to visit Carthage in the character of his own Ambassador; and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery, that he had entertained and dismissed the Emperor of the Romans. Such an anecdote may be rejected as an

improbable fiction; but it is a fiction which would not have been imagined unless in the life of a hero."-Gibbon, D. and F. Vol. vi. p. 180.

That Conrad is a character not altogether out of nature I shall attempt to prove by some historical coincidences which I have met with since writing The Corsair.'

"Eccelin prisonnier," dit Rolandini, "s'enfermoit dans un silence menaçant, il fixoit sur la terre son visage féroce, et ne donnoit point d'essor à sa profonde indignation.- De toutes parts cependant les soldats et les peuples accouroient; ils vouloient voir cet homme, jadis si puissant, et la joie universelle éclatoit de toutes parts.

"Eccelin étoit d'une petite taille; mais tout l'aspect de sa personne, tous ses mouvemens, indiquoient un soldat.-Son langage étoit amer, son déportement superbe-et par son seul égard, il faisoit trembler les plus hardis."-Sismondi, tome iii. page 219, 220.

"Gizericus (Genseric, king of the Vandals, the conqueror of both Carthage and Rome), staturà mediocris, et equi casu claudicans, animo profundus, sermone rarus, luxuriæ contemptor, irâ turbidus, habendi cupidus, ad solicitandas gentes providentissimus," &c. &c.—Jornandes de Rebus Geticis, c. 33.

I beg leave to quote these gloomy realities to keep in countenance my Giaour and Corsair.

NOTE 6, page 165, line 27.

And my stern vow and order's laws oppose.

The Dervises are in colleges, and of different orders, as the monks.

Satan.

NOTE 7, page 167, line 4.

They seize that Dervise!-seize on Zatanai!

NOTE 8, page 167, line 25.

He tore his beard, and foaming fled the fight.

A common and not very novel Prince Eugene's Memoirs, page 24.

effect of Mussulman anger. See "The Seraskier received a wound

in the thigh; he plucked up his beard by the roots, because he was obliged to quit the field."

NOTE 9, page 169, line 9.

Brief time had Conrad now to greet Gulnare.

Gulnare, a female name: it means, literally, the flower of the pomegranate.

NOTE 10, page 178, line 11.

Till even the scaffold echoes with their jest !

In Sir Thomas More, for instance, on the scaffold, and Anne Boleyn, in the Tower, when grasping her neck, she remarked, that it" was too slender to trouble the headsman much." During one part of the French Revolution, it became a fashion to leave some "mot " as a legacy; and the quantity of facetious last words spoken during that period would form a melancholy jest-book of a considerable size.

NOTE 11, page 186, line 8.

That closed their murder'd sage's latest day!

Socrates drank the hemlock a short time before sunset (the hour of execution), notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to wait till the sun went down.

NOTE 12, page 186, line 20.

The queen of night asserts her silent reign.

The twilight in Greece is much shorter than in our own country: the days in winter are longer, but in summer of shorter duration.

NOTE 13, page 186, line 30.

The gleaming turret of the gay Kiosk.

The Kiosk is a Turkish summer-house: the palm is without the present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree the wall intervenes.-Cephisus' stream is indeed scanty, and Ilissus has no stream at all.

NOTE 14, page 187, line 10.

That frown-where gentler ocean seems to smile.

The opening lines as far as section ii. have, perhaps, little business here, and were annexed to an unpublished (though printed) poem; but they were written on the spot in the Spring of 1811, and-I scarce know why-the reader must excuse their appearance here if he can.

NOTE 15, page 190, line 13.

His only bends in seeming o'er his beads.

The Comboloio, or Mahometan rosary; the beads are in number ninety-nine.

NOTE 16, page 208, line 1.

And the cold flowers her colder hand contain'd.

In the Levant it is the custom to strew flowers on the bodies of the dead, and in the hands of young persons to place a nosegay.