<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396097" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epistle To Mr. Murray</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My dear Mr. Murray,<br>You're in a damn 'd hurry,<br>To set up this ultimate Canto;<br>But (if they don't rob us)<br>You'll see Mr. Hobhouse<br>Will bring it safe in his portmanteau.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Journal you hint of,<br>As ready to print off,<br>No doubt you do right to commend it;<br>But as yet I have writ off <br>The devil a bit of<br>Our 'Beppo:'--when copied, I'll send it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then you've Sotheby's Tour,-- <br>No great things, to be sure­,--<br>You could hardly begin with a less work;<br>For the pompous rascallion,<br>Who don't speak Italian<br>Nor French, must have scribbled by guess work.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can make any loss up<br>With 'Spence' and his gossip, <br>A work which must surely succeed; <br>Then Queen Mary's Epistle-craft, <br>With the new 'Fytte' of 'Whistlecraft,'<br>Must make people purchase and read.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then you've General Gordon,<br>Who girded his sword on,<br>To serve with a Muscovite master<br>And help him to polish<br>A nation so owlish,<br>They thought shaving their beards a disaster. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the man, 'poor and shrewd,'<br>With whom you'd conclude<br>A compact without more delay,<br>Perhaps some such pen is<br>Still extant in Venice; <br>But please, sir, to mention your pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Venice, January 8, 1818.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396097" data-title="Epistle To Mr. Murray de Byron" data-description="My dear Mr. Murray, You're in a damn 'd hurry, To set up this ultimate Canto; But (if they don't rob us) You'll see Mr. Hobhouse Will bring it safe in his portmanteau. For the Journal you hint of, As ready to print off, No doubt you do right to c..."></div> </div> </div>

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