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Rh 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! August 23, 1821. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 517.]

[NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX.]

, 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.]