alled _my style_. If they are as good as the
Probationary Odes, or Hawkins's Pipe of Tobacco, it will not be bad
fun for the imitated.

"Ever," &c.

[Footnote 54: These added lines, as may be seen by reference to the
printed Address, were not retained.]

* * * * *

The time comprised in the series of letters to Lord Holland, of which
the above are specimens, Lord Byron passed, for the most part, at
Cheltenham; and during the same period, the following letters to other
correspondents were written.

LETTER 107. TO MR. MURRAY.

"High Street, Cheltenham, Sept. 5. 1812.

"Pray have the goodness to send those despatches, and a No. of the
Edinburgh Review with the rest. I hope you have written to Mr.
Thompson, thanked him in my name for his present, and told him that
I shall be truly happy to comply with his request.--How do you go
on? and when is the graven image, 'with _bays and wicked rhyme
upon 't,'_ to grace, or disgrace, some of our tardy editions?

"Send me '_Rokeby_.' Who the devil is he?--no matter, he has good
connections, and will be well introduced. I thank you for your
enquiries: I am so so, but my thermometer is sadly below the
poetical point. What will you give _me_ or _mine_ for a poem of six
cantos, (_when complete_--_no_ rhyme, _no_ recompense,) as like
the last two as I can make them? I have some ideas that one day may
be embodied, and till winter I shall have much leisure.

"P.S.--My last question is in the true style of Grub Street; but,
like Jeremy Diddler, I only 'ask for information.'--Send me Adair
on Diet and Regimen, just republished by Ridgway."

* * * * *

LETTER 108. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Cheltenham, Sept. 14. 1812.

"The parcels contained some letters and verses, all but one
anonymous and complimentary, and very anxious for my conversion
from certain infidelities into which my good-natured correspondents
conceive me to have fallen. The books were presents of a
_convertible_ kind. Also, 'Christian Knowledge' and the 'Bioscope,'
a religious Dial of Life explained;--and to the author of the
former (Cadell, publisher,) I beg you will forward my best thanks
for his letter, his present, and, above all, his good intentions.
The 'Bioscope' contained a MS. copy of very excellent verses,