[Footnote 52:  A horse of Lord Byron’s:—­the other horse that he had with him at this time was called Sultan.]

[Footnote 53:  The favourite dog, on which Lord Byron afterwards wrote the well-known epitaph.]

[Footnote 54:  Lord Byron and Dr. Pigot continued to be correspondents for some time, but, after their parting this autumn, they never met again.]

[Footnote 55:  Of this edition, which was in quarto, and consisted but of a few sheets, there are but two, or, at the utmost, three copies in existence.]

[Footnote 56:  His valet, Frank.]

[Footnote 57:  Of this “Mary,” who is not to be confounded either with the heiress of Annesley, or “Mary” of Aberdeen, all I can record is, that she was of an humble, if not equivocal, station in life,—­that she had long, light golden hair, of which he used to show a lock, as well as her picture, among his friends; and that the verses in his “Hours of Idleness,” entitled “To Mary, on receiving her Picture,” were addressed to her.]

[Footnote 58:  Here the imperfect sheet ends.]

[Footnote 59:  Though always fond of music, he had very little skill in the performance of it.  “It is very odd,” he said, one day, to this lady,—­“I sing much better to your playing than to any one else’s.”—­“That is,” she answered, “because I play to your singing.”—­In which few words, by the way, the whole secret of a skilful accompanier lies.]

[Footnote 60:  Cricketing, too, was one of his most favourite sports; and it was wonderful, considering his lameness, with what speed he could run.  “Lord Byron (says Miss ——­, in a letter, to her brother, from Southwell) is just gone past the window with his bat on his shoulder to cricket, which he is as fond of as ever.”]

[Footnote 61:  In one of Miss ——­’s letters, the following notice of these canine feuds occurs:—­“Boatswain has had another battle with Tippoo at the House of Correction, and came off conqueror.  Lord B. brought Bo’sen to our window this morning, when Gilpin, who is almost always here, got into an amazing fury with him.”]

[Footnote 62:  “It was the custom of Burns,” says Mr. Lockhart, in his Life of that poet, “to read at table.”]

[Footnote 63:  “I took to reading by myself,” says Pope, “for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm;...  I followed every where, as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fell in his way.  These five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.”  It appears, too, that he was himself aware of the advantages which this free course of study brought with it:—­“Mr. Pope,” says Spence, “thought himself the better, in some respects, for not having had a regular education.  He (as he observed in particular) read originally for the sense, whereas we are taught, for so many years, to read only for words.”]

[Footnote 64:  Before Chatterton was twelve years old, he wrote a catalogue, in the same manner as Lord Byron, of the books he had already read, to the number of seventy.  Of these the chief subjects were history and divinity.]