This etext contains only characters from the Latin 1 set. The original work contained a few phrases of Greek text. These are represented here as Beta code transliterations in brackets, e.g. [Greek: misêto\n].

The original text used a few other characters not found in the Latin 1 set. These have been represented using bracket notation, as follows: [=a], [=i] for letters with a macron, and ['c] for c with accent. In a few places superscript letters are shown by carets, as in Oct^r. 11.

An important feature of this edition is its copious footnotes. Footnotes indexed with letters (e.g. [c], [bf]) show variant forms of Byron's text from manuscripts and other sources. Footnotes indexed with arabic numbers (e.g. [17], [221]) are informational. Text in notes and elsewhere in square brackets is the work of Editor E. H. Coleridge. Note text not in brackets is by Byron himself.