Byron’s humiliations were by no means at an end with his crossing of the Channel later in the month. “I withdrew,” he wrote, “but this was not enough – In other countries – in Switzerland – in the shadow of the Alps – and by the blue depths of the Lakes I was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. – I crossed the Mountains – but it was the same – so I went – a little farther, and settled myself by the waves of the Adriatic – like the Stag at bay who betakes him to the waters.”
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Fiona MacCarthy
Guardian, Saturday 9 November 2002
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