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London, i83y. I have quoted only the dates of his Dispatches.
42 CHILDE HAROLD S PILGRIMAGE.
d< es not give any reason. He only allows it to be supposed because he was an Englishman.
But there was unfortunately another assault which the young lord had to submit to owing to a heedless love affair. One night, while leaving the theatre of San Carlos, he was roughly handled by an aggrieved husband for flirtation with his wife. This fact is attest- ed by several writers. In his Moral Studies written in 1^44, Alexandre Herculano, the eminent historian. Says, that Byron, who imagined that the Portuguese were so ignorant that he could do with them as he liked, received some severe cachacoes or blows when leaving the theatre 1 . And in a cancdo or song ad- dressed to Bvron, Joao de Lemos, a well-known poet, records the same incident thus: A nossa ignordncia achaste tao rude Por serios maridos a char ainda aqui, Que, quando buscavas man char a virtude, Nas costas as manchas te punham a ti^.
You found ignorant and rude all of us, For finding here husbands very serious.
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