{76}[87] [Compare Byron's "Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review," _Letters_, 1900, iv. Appendix VII. 465-470; and letter to Murray, August 24, 1819, ibid., p. 348: "I wrote to you by last post, enclosing a buffooning letter for publication, addressed to the buffoon Roberts, who has thought proper to tie a canister to his own tail. It was written off-hand, and in the midst of circumstances not very favourable to facetiousness, so that there may, perhaps, be more bitterness than enough for that sort of small acid punch." The letter was in reply to a criticism of _Don Juan_ (Cantos I., II.) in the _British Review_ (No. xxvii., 1819, vol. 14, pp. 266-268), in which the Editor assumed, or feigned to assume, that the accusation of bribery was to be taken _au grand sérieux_.] {77}[88] [Hor., _Od._ III. C. xiv. lines 27, 28.] [av] _I thought of dyeing it the other day_.--[MS.] [89] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza cvii. line 2.] {78}[90] "Me nec femina, nec puer Jam, nec spes animi credula mutui, Nec certare juvat mero; Nec vincire novis tempora floribus." Hor., _Od._ IV. i. 30. [In the revise the words _nec puer Jam_ were omitted. On this Hobhouse comments, "Better add the whole or scratch out all after femina."--"Quote the whole then--it was only in compliance with your _settentrionale_ notions that I left out the remnant of the line."--[B.]] [91] [For "How Fryer Bacon made a Brazen head to speak," see _The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon_ (Reprint, London, 1815, pp. 13-18); see, too, _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_, by Robert Greene, ed. Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1861, pp. 153-181.] [92] ["Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?" etc. Beattie's _Minstrel_, Bk. I. stanza i. lines 1, 2.] {79}[aw] _A book--a damned bad picture--and worse bust_.--[MS.] ["Don't swear again--the third 'damn.'"--[H.]--[_Revise._]] [93] [Byron sat for his bust to Thorwaldsen, in May, 1817.]