The Works of Lord Byron Volume I Part 21

[Footnote 5: Scale's publication on Greek Metres displays considerable talent and ingenuity, but, as might be expected in so difficult a work, is not remarkable for accuracy. ('An a.n.a.lysis of the Greek Metres; for the use of students at the University of Cambridge'. By John Barlow Seale (1764), 8vo. A fifth edition was issued in 1807.)]

[Footnote 6. The Latin of the schools is of the 'canine species', and not very intelligible.]

[Footnote 7: The discovery of Pythagoras, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right-angled triangle.]

[Footnote 8: On a saint's day the students wear surplices in chapel.]

[Footnote i: 'And place it'. [4to]]

[Footnote ii: 'The price of hireling'. [4to]]

[Footnote iii: 'Who canva.s.s now'. [4to]]

[Footnote iv:

'One on his power and place depends, The other on--the Lord knows what!

Each to some eloquence pretends, But neither will convince by that.

The first, indeed, may not demur; Fellows are sage reflecting men, And know'.

[4to. 'P. on V. Occasions'.]]

[Footnote v:

'And therefore smiles at his'.

[4to. 'P. on V. Occasions'.]]

[Footnote vi:

'Now from Corruption's shameless scene'.

[4to. 'P. on V. Occasions'.]]

[Footnote vii: 'And view unseen'. [4to]]

[Footnote viii: 'and early rises'. [4to]]

[Footnote ix: 'And all the' [4to]]

[Footnote x: 'And agitates'. [4to]]

[Footnote xi: 'And robs himself of many a meal'. [4to]]

[Footnote xii:

'But harmless are these occupations Which'.

[4to]]

[Footnote xiii:

'When Drunkenness and dice unite.

And every sense'.

[4to. 'P. on V. Occasions'.]]

[Footnote xiv: 'And exultation'. [4to]]

[Footnote xv: 'But he'. [4to]]

[Footnote xvi: 'But mercy'. [4to]]

[Footnote xvii: 'But had they sung'. [4to]]

[Footnote xviii:

'But if I write much longer now'.

[4to. 'P. on V. Occasions'.]]

TO THE SIGHING STREPHON. [1]

1.

Your pardon, my friend, If my rhymes did offend, Your pardon, a thousand times o'er; From friends.h.i.+p I strove, Your pangs to remove, But, I swear, I will do so no more.