Note 69 — LORD BYRON: (continued 5)
Reading edition
There were in this Poem, originally, three lines of remarkable strength and severity, which, as the Italian poet against whom they were directed was then living, were omitted in the publication. I shall here give them from memory.
"The prostitution of his Muse and wife, Both beautiful, and both by him debased, Shall salt his bread and give him means of life."