[8] [This "...is not exactly so; the third column does not seem to have ever had a ring, but the traces of these rings are very visible in the two first columns from the entrance, although the rings have been removed; and on the three last we find the rings still riveted on the darkest side of the pillars where they face the rock, so that the unfortunate prisoners chained there were even bereft of light.... The fifth column is said to be the one to which Bonivard was chained during four years. Byron's name is carved on the southern side of the third column ... on the seventh tympanum, at about 1 metre 45 from the lower edge of the shaft." Much has been written for and against the authenticity of this inscription, which, according to M. Naef, the author of Guide, was carved by Byron himself, "with an antique ivory-mounted stiletto, which had been discovered in the duke's room."—Guide, etc., pp. 39-42. The inscription was in situ as early as August 22, 1820, as Mr. Richard Edgcumbe points out (Notes and Queries, Series V. xi. 487).]
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[d] {16}——pined in heart.—[Editions 1816-1837.]
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[9] [Compare, for similarity of sound—
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"Thou tree of covert and of rest
For this young Bird that is distrest."
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, by W. Wordsworth, Works, 1889, p. 364.
Compare, too—
"She came into the cave, but it was merely
To see her bird reposing in his nest."
Don Juan, Canto II. stanza clxviii. lines 3, 4.]
[10] {17}[Compare—
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