i6o love's meinie. 



Who chirped in such strain 



Of Greece, Italy, Spain, 



And Egypt, that men, when they heard, 



Were mad to fly forth, 



From their nests in the North, 

 48 And follow— the tail of the Bird. 



Besides, it is true, 



To our wisdom is due 

 The knowledge of Sciences all ; 

 And chiefly, those rare 



Metaphysics of Air 

 54 Men ' Meteorology ' call, 



And men, in their words. 



Acknowledge the Birds' 



46. Mad. Compare Byron of the English in his clay. 

 "A parcel of staring boobies who go about gaping and 

 wishing to be at once cheap and magnificent. A man is 

 a fool now, who travels in France or Italy, till that tribe of 

 wretches be swept home again. In two or three years, the 

 first rush will be over, and the Continent will be roomy and 

 agreeable." (Life, vol. ii., p. 319.) For sketches of the 

 English of seventeen years later, at the same spots (Wengern 

 Alp and Interlachen), see, if you can see, in any library, 

 public or private, at Geneva, Topffer's ' Excursions dans 

 les Alpes, 1832.' Douzieme, Treizieme, and Quatorzieme 

 Journee. 



48. The Tail, Mr. Courthope does not condescend to 

 italicize his pun ; but a swallow-tailed and adder-tongued 

 pun like this must be paused upon. Compare Mr. Murray's 

 Tale of the Town of Lucca, to be seen between the arrival 

 of one train and the departure of the next, — nothing there 

 but twelve churches and a cathedral, — mostly of the tenth 

 to ihirteenlh century. 



