wandering eye

[5jj]

I tried to find a Latin phrase without success. (I tried "fatigat" for "outwears", not sure if that's right.) Google doesn't seem to know Latin inflexion, so it wouldn't help very much...

just try 'sheath'

 

[BobK]

Irrelevantly, the diminutive vaginilla is used as the metaphor at the bottom of 'vanilla'.

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[birdeen's call]

just try 'sheath'

Oh, I understood this one. ;-) But BobK said he suspected that Byron had taken the entire phrase from somewhere and I hoped I could find out what the somewhere was.