]
[69] [_The Missionary of the Andes, a Poem_, by W.
[69] [_The Missionary of the Andes, a Poem_, by W.
Byron
Gaily Knight, 1816.
]
VERSICLES.
I READ the "Christabel;"[68]
Very well:
I read the "Missionary;"[69]
Pretty--very:
I tried at "Ilderim;"
Ahem!
I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of _Anjou_;"
_Can you_?
I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;"[70]
Pooh! pooh!
I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;"[71]
Hillo!
I read "Glenarvon," too, by Caro Lamb;[72]
God damn!
March 25, 1817.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 87. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[68] [_Christabel, etc. _, by S. T. Coleridge, 1816.
]
[69] [_The Missionary of the Andes, a Poem_, by W. L. Bowles, 1815. ]
[70] [_Waterloo and other Poems_, by J. Wedderburn Webster, 1816. ]
[71] [_The White Doe of Rylstone, or the Fate of the Nortons, a Poem_,
by W. Wordsworth, 1815. ]
[72] [_Glenarvon, a Novel_ [by Lady Caroline Lamb], 1816. ]
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT. [73]
God maddens him whom't is his will to lose,
And gives the choice of death or phrenzy--choose.
[First published, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 93. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[73] [_A propos_ of Maturin's tragedy, _Manuel_ (_vide post_, p. 48,
_note_ 1), Byron "does into English" the Latin proverb by way of
contrast to the text, "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth; blessed be
the Name of the Lord" (Letter to Murray, April 2, 1817). ]
TO THOMAS MOORE.
1.
VERSICLES.
I READ the "Christabel;"[68]
Very well:
I read the "Missionary;"[69]
Pretty--very:
I tried at "Ilderim;"
Ahem!
I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of _Anjou_;"
_Can you_?
I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;"[70]
Pooh! pooh!
I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;"[71]
Hillo!
I read "Glenarvon," too, by Caro Lamb;[72]
God damn!
March 25, 1817.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 87. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[68] [_Christabel, etc. _, by S. T. Coleridge, 1816.
]
[69] [_The Missionary of the Andes, a Poem_, by W. L. Bowles, 1815. ]
[70] [_Waterloo and other Poems_, by J. Wedderburn Webster, 1816. ]
[71] [_The White Doe of Rylstone, or the Fate of the Nortons, a Poem_,
by W. Wordsworth, 1815. ]
[72] [_Glenarvon, a Novel_ [by Lady Caroline Lamb], 1816. ]
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT. [73]
God maddens him whom't is his will to lose,
And gives the choice of death or phrenzy--choose.
[First published, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 93. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[73] [_A propos_ of Maturin's tragedy, _Manuel_ (_vide post_, p. 48,
_note_ 1), Byron "does into English" the Latin proverb by way of
contrast to the text, "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth; blessed be
the Name of the Lord" (Letter to Murray, April 2, 1817). ]
TO THOMAS MOORE.
1.
