I wanted to send you a few songs written in your favorite Devon--it cannot be--Rain! Rain! Rain! I am going this morning to take a facsimile of a Letter of Nelson's, very much to his honour--you will be greatly pleased when you see it--in about a week. What a spite it is one cannot get out--the little way I went yesterday, I found a lane banked on each side with store of Primroses, while the earlier bushes are beginning to leaf. I shall hear a good account of you soon. Your affectionate Friend JOHN KEATS. My Love to all and remember me to Taylor. L.--TO JOHN TAYLOR. Teignmouth, Friday [April 24, 1818]. My dear Taylor--I think I did wrong to leave to you all the trouble of Endymion--But I could not help it then--another time I shall be more bent to all sorts of troubles and disagreeables. Young men for some time have an idea that such a thing as happiness is to be had, and therefore are extremely impatient under any unpleasant restraining. In time however, of such stuff is the world about them, they know better, and instead of striving from uneasiness, greet it as an habitual sensation, a pannier which is to weigh upon them through life--And in proportion to my disgust at the task is my sense of your kindness and anxiety. The book pleased me much. It is very free from faults: and, although there are one or two words I should wish replaced, I see in many places an improvement greatly to the purpose. I think those speeches which are related--those parts where the speaker repeats a speech, such as Glaucus's repetition of Circe's words, should have inverted commas to every line. In this there is a little confusion.--If we divide the speeches into _identical_ and _related_; and to the former put merely one inverted Comma at the beginning and another at the end; and to the latter inverted Commas before every line, the book will be better understood at the 1st glance. Look at pages 126, 127, you will find in the 3d line the beginning of a related speech marked thus "Ah! art awake--" while, at the same time, in the next page the continuation of the _identical_ speech is marked in the same manner, "Young man of Latmos--" You will find on the other side all the parts which should have inverted commas to every line.