]
[590] ["So the prince has been repealing Lord Fitzgerald's forfeiture?
[590] ["So the prince has been repealing Lord Fitzgerald's forfeiture?
Byron
]
[589] I wrote this sonnet (after tearing the first) on being repeatedly
urged to do so by the Countess G. [It was at the house of the Marquis
Cavalli, uncle to the countess, that Byron appeared in the part of a
fully-recognized "Cicisbeo. "--See letter to Hoppner, December 31, 1819,
_Letters, 1900_, iv. 393. ]
[ig] {548}_To the Prince Regent on the repeal of the bill of attainder
against Lord E. Fitzgerald, June, 1819. _
[ih] _To leave_----. --[MS. M. ]
[ii] _Who_ NOW _would lift a hand_----. --[MS. M. ]
[ij]
----_becomes but more complete_
_Thyself a despot_----. --[MS. M.
]
[590] ["So the prince has been repealing Lord Fitzgerald's forfeiture?
_Ecco un' Sonetto! _ There, you dogs! there's a Sonnet for you: you won't
have such as that in a hurry from Mr. Fitzgerald. You may publish it
with my name, an ye wool. He deserves all praise, bad and good; it was a
very noble piece of principality. "--Letter to Murray, August 12, 1819.
For [William Thomas] Fitgerald, see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 297, note
3; for Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), see _Letters_, 1900, iv. 345,
note 1. The royal assent was given to a bill for "restoring Edward Fox
Fitzgerald and his sisters Pamela and Lucy to their blood," July 13,
1819. The sonnet was addressed to George IV. when Prince Regent. The
title, "To George the Fourth," affixed in 1831, is incorrect. ]
[591] {549}["A friend of Lord Byron's, who was with him at Ravenna when
he wrote these stanzas, says, They were composed, like many others, with
no view of publication, but merely to relieve himself in a moment of
suffering.
[589] I wrote this sonnet (after tearing the first) on being repeatedly
urged to do so by the Countess G. [It was at the house of the Marquis
Cavalli, uncle to the countess, that Byron appeared in the part of a
fully-recognized "Cicisbeo. "--See letter to Hoppner, December 31, 1819,
_Letters, 1900_, iv. 393. ]
[ig] {548}_To the Prince Regent on the repeal of the bill of attainder
against Lord E. Fitzgerald, June, 1819. _
[ih] _To leave_----. --[MS. M. ]
[ii] _Who_ NOW _would lift a hand_----. --[MS. M. ]
[ij]
----_becomes but more complete_
_Thyself a despot_----. --[MS. M.
]
[590] ["So the prince has been repealing Lord Fitzgerald's forfeiture?
_Ecco un' Sonetto! _ There, you dogs! there's a Sonnet for you: you won't
have such as that in a hurry from Mr. Fitzgerald. You may publish it
with my name, an ye wool. He deserves all praise, bad and good; it was a
very noble piece of principality. "--Letter to Murray, August 12, 1819.
For [William Thomas] Fitgerald, see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 297, note
3; for Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), see _Letters_, 1900, iv. 345,
note 1. The royal assent was given to a bill for "restoring Edward Fox
Fitzgerald and his sisters Pamela and Lucy to their blood," July 13,
1819. The sonnet was addressed to George IV. when Prince Regent. The
title, "To George the Fourth," affixed in 1831, is incorrect. ]
[591] {549}["A friend of Lord Byron's, who was with him at Ravenna when
he wrote these stanzas, says, They were composed, like many others, with
no view of publication, but merely to relieve himself in a moment of
suffering.
