Make a note_ of this, and put _Editor_ as the subscription to it.

"As I make such pretensions to accuracy, I should not like to be
_twitted_ even with such trifles on that score. Of the play they
may say what they please, but not so of my costume and _dram.
pers._ they having been real existences.

"I omitted Foscolo in my list of living _Venetian worthies, in the
notes_, considering him as an _Italian_ in general, and not a mere
provincial like the rest; and as an Italian I have spoken of him in
the preface to Canto 4th of Childe Harold.

"The French translation of us!!! _oime! oime!_--the German; but I
don't understand the latter and his long dissertation at the end
about the Fausts. Excuse haste. Of politics it is not safe to
speak, but nothing is decided as yet.

"I am in a very fierce humour at not having Scott's Monastery. You
are _too liberal_ in quantity, and somewhat careless of the
quality, of your missives. All the _Quarterlies_ (four in number) I
had had before from you, and _two_ of the Edinburgh; but no matter;
we shall have new ones by and by. No more Keats, I entreat:--flay
him alive; if some of you don't, I must skin him myself. There is
no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the manikin.

"I don't feel inclined to care further about 'Don Juan.' What do
you think a very pretty Italian lady said to me the other day? She
had read it in the French, and paid me some compliments, with due
DRAWBACKS, upon it. I answered that what she said was true, but
that I suspected it would live longer than Childe Harold. '_Ah
but_' (said she). '_I would rather have the fame of Childe Harold
for three years than an_ IMMORTALITY _of Don Juan!_' The truth is
that _it is_ TOO TRUE, and the women hate many things which strip
off the tinsel of _sentiment_; and they are right, as it would rob
them of their weapons. I never knew a woman who did not hate _De
Grammont's Memoirs_ for the same reason: even Lady * * used to
abuse them.

"Rose's work I never received. It was seized at Venice. Such is the
liberality of the Huns, with their two hundred thousand men, that
they dare not let such a volume as his circulate."

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LETTER 392. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Ravenna, 8bre 16 deg., 1820.

"The Abbot has just ar