ttack, not paralytic; but, if I had not heard of it, I should
not have found it out. He looks, and especially speaks, strong. How are
all the Wordsworths and all the Southeys? whom I am obliged to you if
you have not brought up haters of the name of

C. LAMB.

P.S.--I have gone lately into the acrostic line. I find genius (such as
I had) declines with me, but I get clever. Do you know anybody that
wants charades, or such things, for Albums? I do 'em at so much a sheet.
Perhaps an epigram (not a very happy-gram) I did for a school-boy
yesterday may amuse. I pray Jove he may not get a flogging for any false
quantity; but 'tis, with one exception, the only Latin verses I have
made for forty years, and I did it "to order."

SUUM CUIQUE

Adsciscit sibi divitias et opes alienas
Fur, rapiens, spolians, quod mihi, quod-que tibi,
Proprium erat, temnens haec verba, Meum-que, Suum-que;
Omne suum est: tandem Cui-que Suum tribuit.
Dat laqueo collum; vestes, vah! carnifici dat;
Sese Diabolo: sic bene: Cuique Suum.

I write from Hone's, therefore Mary cannot send her love to Mrs.
Southey, but I do.

Yours ever, C.L.

[Major's edition of _The Pilgrim's Progress_, mentioned in a letter to
Barton above, was issued in 1830 with a memoir of Bunyan by Southey. It
was reviewed in _The Times_ for May 7, 1830, I think probably by Lamb,
in the following terms:--

The public is aware that the unexhausted diligence and unwearied pen
of Mr. Southey have produced a new and excellent edition of the
celebrated _Pilgrim's Progress_, with the Life of the Author
prefixed. This Life is, no doubt, an interesting work, though we
wish the author, both in that and in the account, which is
attributed to him, of the founder of the Jesuits, contained in a
recent periodical work, had taken more time. The narrative in both
is hasty and tumultuary, if we may use the latter expression: there
is no time or room for reflection; and when a reflection comes, it
is so mixed and jambed in with the story, or with quotations from
the works or words of the respective heroes of the history, that it
escapes unobserved. Could we, without grievous offence, recommend,
both to Mr. Southey and Sir Walter Scott, to recollect the man
spoken of by Horace?--

quem fama est esse librisque Ambustum propriis."--_Sat_, i., 61.