_July 30, 1821._ [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 506.] FOOTNOTES: [122] [For Croker's "article" on Keats's _Endymion_ (_Quarterly Review_, April, 1818, vol. xix. pp. 204-208), see _Don Juan_, Canto XI. stanza lx. line 1, _Poetical Works_, 1902, vi. 445, _note_ 4.] FROM THE FRENCH. ÆGLE, beauty and poet, has two little crimes; She makes her own face, and does not make her rhymes. _Aug. 2, 1821._ [First published, _The Liberal_, 1823, No. II. p. 396.] TO MR. MURRAY. 1. FOR Orford[123] and for Waldegrave[124] You give much more than me you _gave_; Which is not fairly to behave, My Murray! 2. Because if a live dog, 't is said, Be worth a lion fairly sped, A live lord must be worth _two_ dead, My Murray! 3. And if, as the opinion goes, Verse hath a better sale than prose,-- Certes, I should have more than those, My Murray! 4. But now this sheet is nearly crammed, So, if _you will_, _I_ shan't be shammed, And if you _won't_,--_you_ may be damned, My Murray![125] _August 23, 1821._ [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 517.] FOOTNOTES: [123] [Horace Walpole's _Memoirs of the Last Nine Years of the Reign of George II._ ] [124] [_Memoirs_ by James Earl Waldegrave, Governor of George III. when Prince of Wales.] [125] ["Can't accept your courteous offer [_i.e._ £2000 for three cantos of _Don Juan, Sardanapalus_, and _The Two Foscari_.] These matters must be arranged with Mr. Douglas Kinnaird. He is my trustee, and a man of honour. To him you can state all your mercantile reasons, which you might not like to state to me personally, such as 'heavy season'--'flat public'--'don't go off'--'lordship writes too much'--'won't take advice'--'declining popularity'--'deductions for the trade'--'make very little'--'generally lose by him'--'pirated edition'--'foreign edition'--'severe criticisms,' etc., with other hints and howls for an oration, which I leave Douglas, who is an orator, to answer."--Letter to Murray, August 23, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 348.] [NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX.][126] LADY, accept the box a hero wore, In spite of all this elegiac stuff: Let not seven stanzas written by a bore, Prevent your Ladyship from taking snuff! 1821. [First published, _Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824, p. 235.] FOOTNOTES: