NOTES TO CANTO FIRST. Note 1, page 4, stanza v. Note 2, page 7, stanza xvii. Save thine "incomparable oil" Macassar! "Description des vertue incomparables de l'huile de "Macassar."-See the advertisement. Note 3, page 13, stanza xlii. Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn See Longinus, Section 10, να μη εν τι περι αυτην παθος φαίνηται, παθων δε συνοδος.” Note 4, page 14, stanza xliv. They only add them all in an appendix. Fact. There is, or was, such an edition, with all the obnoxious epigrams of Martial placed by themselves at the end. Note 5, page 25, stanza lxxxviii. The bard I quote from does not sing amiss. Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming. (I think) the opening of Canto II.; but quote from memory. Note 6, page 40, stanza cxlviii. Is it for this that General Count O'Reilly, Who took Algiers, declares I used him vilely? Donna Julia here made a mistake. Count O'Reilly did not take Algiers-but Algiers very nearly took him he and his army and fleet retreated with great loss, and not much credit, from before that city in the year 17 T Note 7, page 57, stanza ccxvi. My days of love are over, me no more. Me nec femina, nec puer, Jam, nec spes animi credula mutui Nec vincire novis tempora floribus. DON JUAN. CANTO II. I. OH ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, 1 pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals; never mind the pain; The best of mothers and of educations, In Juan's case, were but employ'd in vain, Since in a way, that's rather of the oddest, he Became divested of his native modesty. II. Had he but been placed at a public school, At least, had he been nurtured in the north; But then exceptions always prove its worthA lad of sixteen causing a divorce, Puzzled his tutors very much, of course. III. I can't say that it puzzles me at all, If all things be consider'd: first there was His lady mother, mathematical, A -never mind; his tutor an old ass; A pretty woman-(that's quite natural, Or else the thing had hardly come to pass ;) A husband rather old, not much in unity With his young wife-a time, and opportunity. IV. ; Well-well, the world must turn upon its axis, V. I said, that Juan had been sent to Cadiz- VI. An Arab horse, a stately stag, a barb VII. Chaste Muse!-well, if you must, you must)-the veil Thrown back a moment with the glancing hand, While the o'erpowering eye, that turns you pale, Flashes into the heart: all-sunny land Of love! when I forget you, may I fail To say my prayers but never was there plann'd A dress through which the eye gives such a volley, Excepting the Venetian Fazzioli. VIII. But to our tale: the Donna Inez sent Her son to Cadiz only to embark; To stay there had not answer'd her intent; But why ?-we leave the reader in the dark'Twas for a voyage that the young man was meant, As if a Spanish ship were Noah's ark, To wean him from the wickedness of earth, And send him like a dove of promise forth. IX. Don Juan bade his valet pack his things She hoped he would improve-perhaps believed; X. In the mean time, to pass her hours away, XI. Juan embark'd-the ship got under weigh, As I, who've cross'd it oft, know well enough; And, standing upon deck, the dashing spray Flies in one's face, and makes it weather tough. And there he stood to take, and take again, His first, perhaps his last-farewell of Spain. F |