SPIRIT.

But thy many crimes

Have made thee

ΜΑΝ.

What are they to such as thee?

Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes,

And greater criminals?—Back to thy hell!

Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel;

Thou never shalt possess me, that I know:
What I have done is done; I bear within
A torture which could nothing gain from thine :
The mind which is immortal makes itself
Requital for its good or evil thoughts—
Is its own origin of ill and end—

And its own place and time-its innate sense,
When stripp'd of this mortality, derives

No colour from the fleeting things without;
But is absorb'd in sufferance or in joy,

Born from the knowledge of its own desert.

Thou didst not tempt me, and thou couldst not tempt

me;

I have not been thy dupe, nor am thy prey—
But was my own destroyer, and will be
My own hereafter.-Back, ye baffled fiends!
The hand of death is on me--but not yours!

[The Demons disappear.

ABBOT. Alas! how pale thou art-thy lips are whiteAnd thy breast heaves-and in thy gasping throat The accents rattle-Give thy prayers to heaven-Pray-albeit but in thought,—but die not thus.

MAN. 'Tis over-my dull eyes can fix thee not; But all things swim around me, and the earth Heaves as it were beneath me. Fare thee wellGive me thy hand.

Аввот.

Cold-cold-even to the heart

But yet one prayer-alas! how fares it with thee?—

MAN. Old man! 'tis not so difficult to die.

[MANFRED expires.

ABBOT. He's gone-his soul hath ta'en its earthless

flight

Whither? I dread to think---but he is gone.

NOTES TO MANFRED.

Note 1, page 30, lines 7 and 8.

the sunbow's rays still arch

The torrent with the many hues of heaven.

This iris is formed by the rays of the sun over the lower part of the Alpine torrents: it is exactly like a rainbow, come down to pay a visit, and so close that you may walk into it-this effect lasts till noon.

Note 2, page 34, lines 22 and 23.

He who from out their fountain dwellings raised
Eros and Anteros, at Gadara.

The philosopher Iamblicus. The story of the raising of Eros and Anteros may be found in his life, by Eunapius. It is well told.

Note 3, page 39, lines 14 and 15.

she replied

In words of dubious import, but fulfill'd.

The story of Pausanias, king of Sparta, (who commanded the Greeks at the battle of Platea, and afterwards perished

for an attempt to betray the Lacedemonians) and Cleonice, is told in Plutarch's life of Cimon; and in the Laconics of Pausanias the Sophist, in his description of Greece.

Note 4, page 64, lines 7 and 8.

the giant sons

Of the embrace of angels.

"That the Sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," &c.

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the Sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

Genesis, ch. vi. verses 2 and 4.

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