Excerpt from The Real Lord Byron, Vol. 2 of 2: New Views of the Poet's Life Having provided himself with a capacious and luxurious coach (so constructed, on the model Of Napoleon's travelling-carriage taken at Genappe, as to contain a bed, a library, a plate-chest and a dinner service) and a caleche for his baggage and servants (the vehicle whose purchase involved the poet in a rather comical dispute with an extortionate Brussels Coach-builder), Byron journeyed leisurely through Flanders and by the Rhine route to Switzerland, - a course through which he may be accompanied in the third canto of Childe Harold the poem of Water loo, the Rhine and Lake Leman. It was at Brussels after a visit to the famous field that the poet com mitted to paper (in Mrs'. Pryce L. Gordon's album) the two first of the Waterloo stanzas, the second of them containing the lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.