So, we'll go no more a roving the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty nine." The poem seems to have been suggested in part by the refrain of a Scottish song known as "The Jolly Beggar." The Jolly Beggar was published in Herd's "Scots Songs" in 1776, 41 years before Byron's letter, and goes partially
Ll romanization of Mandarin Chinese, final "-ll" indicates a falling tone on a syllable ending in , which is otherwise spelled "-l." In Central Alaskan Yup'ik and the Greenlandic language, ll stands for , and in Haida (Bringhurst orthography) it is glottalized . Ll Ll/ll is a digraph which occurs in several natural languages. In English, "ll" often represents the same sound as single "l": . The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is (historically) short, or that the "l" sound is to be extended longer than a single "l" would provide (etymologically, in latinisms coming from a