To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle for Freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted. _November 5, 1820_. [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 377.] FOOTNOTES: [116] [The lines were sent in a letter to Moore (November 5, 1820) by way of _Autoepitaphium_, "if 'honour should come unlooked for' to any of your acquaintance;" i.e. if Byron should fall in the cause of Italian revolution, and Moore should not think him worthy of commemoration, here was a threnody "ready at hand."] TO PENELOPE.[117] JANUARY 2, 1821. THIS day, of all our days, has done The worst for me and you:-- 'T is just _six_ years since we were _one_, And _five_ since we were _two_. _November 5, 1820._ [First published, Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824, p. 106.] FOOTNOTES: [117] ["For the anniversary of January 2, 1821, I have a small grateful anticipation, which, in case of accident, I add."--Letter to Moore, November 5, 1820, _Letters_, 1891, v. 112.] THE CHARITY BALL.[118] WHAT matter the pangs of a husband and father, If his sorrows in exile be great or be small, So the Pharisee's glories around her she gather, And the saint patronises her "Charity Ball!" What matters--a heart which, though faulty, was feeling, Be driven to excesses which once could appal-- That the Sinner should suffer is only fair dealing, As the Saint keeps her charity back for "the Ball!" _December 10, 1820._ [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 540.] FOOTNOTES: [118] [Written on seeing the following paragraph in a newspaper: "Lady Byron is this year the lady patroness at the annual Charity Ball, given at the Town Hall, at Hinckley, Leicestershire...."--_Life_, p. 535. Moore adds that "these verses [of which he only prints two stanzas] are full of strong and indignant feeling,--every stanza concluding pointedly with the words 'Charity Ball.'"] EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' ADDRESS TO BE PRESENTED IN _ARMOUR_ BY THE COMPANY TO QUEEN CAROLINE.[119] IT seems that the Braziers propose soon to pass An Address and to bear it themselves all in brass; A superfluous pageant, for by the Lord Harry! They'll _find_, where they're going, much more than they carry. Or-- THE Braziers, it seems, are determined to pass An Address, and present it themselves all in brass:-- A superfluous {pageant/trouble} for, by the Lord Harry! They'll find, where they're going, much more than they carry.