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CXLI.

The Moslem orphan went with her protector, For she was homeless, houseless, helpless: all Her friends, like the sad family of Hector,

Had perished in the field or by the wall: Her very place of birth was but a spectre

Of what it had been; there the muezzin's call To prayer was heard no more!-And Juan wept, And made a vow to shield her, which he kept.

END OF CANTO VIII.

NOTES TO CANTO VIII.

Note 1, page 385, stanza viii.

All sounds it pierceth, « Allah! Allah! Hu!

Allah Hu! is properly the war cry of the Mussulmans, and they dwell long on the last syllable, which gives it a very wild and peculiar effect.

Note 2, page 386, stanza IX.

Carnage» (so Wordsworth tells you) is God's daughter: etc.

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To wit, the Deity's; this is perhaps as pretty a pedigree for Murder as ever was found out by Garter King at Arms.---What would have been said, had any free-spoken people discovered such a lineage?

Note 3, page 389, stanza XVIII.

Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose.

A fact; see the Waterloo Gazettes. I recollect remarking at the time to a friend :- There is fame! a man is killed, his name is Grose, and they print it Grove.» I was at college with the deceased, who was a very amiable and clever man, and his society in great request for his wit, gaiety, and « chansons à boire?»

Note 4, page 390, stanza XXIII.

As any other notion, and not national ;)—
See Major Vallencey and Sir Lawrence Parsons.

Note 5, page 391, stanza xxv.'

"Tis pity that such meanings should hell.

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The Portuguese proverb says that: «Hell is paved with good inten

tions."

Note 6, page 394, stanza xxxIII.

By thy humane discovery, Friar Bacon!

Gunpowder is said to have been discovered by this friar.

Note 7, page 398, stanza XLVII.

Which scarcely rose much higher than blades.

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They were but two feet high above the level.

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Note 9, page 427, stanza cxxxIII.

Glory to God and to the Empress!» (Powers

Eternal! such names mingled!) Ismail's ours!»

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