Note 576 — NOTES TO CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO IV.
Reading edition
"And if the virtue or prudence of Laura was inexorable, he enjoyed, and might boast of enjoying, the nymph of poetry."—Decline and Fall, 1818, chap. lxx. p. 321, vol. xii. 8vo. Perhaps the if is here meant for although.