8. 
  “Tread those reviving passions down,
    Unworthy manhood!—­unto thee
  Indifferent should the smile or frown
      Of beauty be.

9. 
  “If thou regret’st thy youth, why live? 
    The land of honourable death
  Is here:—­up to the field, and give
      Away thy breath!

10. 
  “Seek out—­less often sought than found—­
    A soldier’s grave, for thee the best;
  Then look around, and choose thy ground,—­
      And take thy rest.”

“We perceived,” says Count Gamba, “from these lines, as well as from his daily conversations, that his ambition and his hope were irrevocably fixed upon the glorious objects of his expedition to Greece, and that he had made up his mind to ’return victorious, or return no more.’  Indeed, he often said to me, ’Others may do as they please—­they may go—­but I stay here, that is certain.’  The same determination was expressed in his letters to his friends; and this resolution was not unaccompanied with the very natural presentiment—­that he should never leave Greece alive.  He one day asked his faithful servant, Tita, whether he thought of returning to Italy?  ‘Yes,’ said Tita:  ‘if your Lordship goes, I go.’  Lord Byron smiled, and said, ’No, Tita, I shall never go back from Greece—­either the Turks, or the Greeks, or the climate, will prevent that.’”

LETTER 540.  TO MR. CHARLES HANCOCK.

“Missolonghi, February 5. 1824.

“Dr. Muir’s letter and yours of the 23d reached me some days ago.  Tell Muir that I am glad of his promotion for his sake, and of his remaining near us for all our sakes; though I cannot but regret Dr. Kennedy’s departure, which accounts for the previous earthquakes and the present English weather in this climate.  With all respect to my medical pastor, I have to announce to him, that amongst other fire-brands, our firemaster Parry (just landed) has disembarked an elect blacksmith, intrusted with three hundred and twenty-two Greek Testaments.  I have given him all facilities in my power for his works spiritual and temporal; and if he can settle matters as easily with the Greek Archbishop and hierarchy, I trust that neither the heretic nor the supposed sceptic will be accused of intolerance.

“By the way, I met with the said Archbishop at Anatolico (where I went by invitation of the Primates a few days ago, and was received with a heavier cannonade than the Turks, probably,) for the second time (I had known him here before); and he and P. Mavrocordato, and the Chiefs and Primates and I, all dined together, and I thought the metropolitan the merriest of the party, and a very good Christian for all that.  But Gamba (we got wet through on our way back) has been ill with a fever and cholic; and Luke has been out of sorts too, and so have some others of the people, and I have been very well,—­except that I caught cold yesterday, with swearing too much in the rain at the Greeks, who would not bear a hand in landing the Committee stores, and nearly spoiled our combustibles; but I turned out in person, and made such a row as set them in motion, blaspheming at them from the Government downwards, till they actually did some part of what they ought to have done several days before, and this is esteemed, as it deserves to be, a wonder.