...motif is not merely incidental: it becomes of major importance. Manfred makes many references to the ''power upon me which withholds, / And makes it my fatality to live" (I, ii, 23-24) to his "fierce thirst of death . . . still unslaked," to the barrenness of his "days...

...been cunning in mine overthrow The careful pilot of my proper woe. ("[Epistle to Augusta]," 21-24) There is a power upon me which withholds, And makes...fatality to live; If it be life to wear within myself Th1s barrenness of sp1r1t, and to he My own soul's sepulchre, for I have ceased To justify my deeds...

...word «fatality»: [...] Whèrefore do I pause? I feel thè impulse - yet I do not plunge; I see thè peril - yet do not recede; And my brain reels - and...which withholds, And makes it my fatality to live, [I, ii, 19-24] Thè eagle, mentioned in thè verbal text [1l. 30-31], which with its high flight should...

...watching the effect upon a shocked but curious public. 8. my soul invincible] So Manfred (I, ii) says: There is a power upon me which withholds And makes...for I have ceased To justify my deeds unto myself. 13. the bag o' the bee] Byron probably recalled Ben Jonson's lyric on Charis, 'See the chariot at hand...

...527-8). 3. Ibid., II, 1. « Yo que buscandola voy, No puedo encontrar con ella. » (III, Hi.) and « There is a power upon me which withholds. And makes it my fatality to live. » (I, n.) Cf . « Plles b.usco ansioso el oiorir For no osar el resistir De los astros el furor. »...