ABSTRACT

Byron, Mazeppa (1819); Edinburgh [Scots] Magazine, 2nd Series, V (Aug. 1819), 145-152. On page 146 Horatio’s sentiment is paraphrased from Hamlet V.i.227. On page 151 Francois Ravaillac was the assassin of King Henry IV of France (Henry of Navarre) and Robert F. Damiens attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate Louis XV.