Note 181 — CANTO THE THIRD.[169]
Reading edition
{153}[Compare Hudibras, Part I. canto iii. lines 1, 2—
"Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!"
Byron's friend, C.S. Matthews, shouted these lines, con intenzione, under the windows of a Cambridge tradesman named Hiron, who had been instrumental in the expulsion from the University of Sir Henry Smyth, a riotous undergraduate. (See letter to Murray, October 19, 1820.)]