8 LORD BYRON. 



ferat' is a very good motto, I would rather 

 pass it by and forego a controversy that 

 might tend to disturb the wreath on a brow 

 the entire civilized world has combined to 

 honour." 



" I do not exactly understand what you 

 say ; but pray tell me who was the second ? " 



Now, this book-keeper was a respectable 

 tradesman in the town, and had attended 

 this particular coach only, in that capacity, 

 it being originally a subscription-coach and 

 had so remained for many years. 



" Why, my dear sir," I said to him, 

 " I fear you will not like the second quite 

 so well." I knew my friend to be a strict 

 religionist, of the Wesleyan persuasion. 

 " The second who claims this as his natal 



day," I said, " Mr. B , was a writer who, 



in our days, has been almost idolized ; his 

 works have been very much admired, and he 

 has obtained extraordinary fame as a poet. 

 It has been objected that some of his poems 

 have rather a loose tendency ; but his was a 



