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LADY CAROLINE LAMB hands two years earlier, with the injunction not to publish it then or to name the author. It contains the following verses, which had been written many years before:

Her last excursion into fiction was Ada Reis, published in three volumes in 1823, a fantastic Eastern tale, very Byronic in character. Her husband, somewhat disturbed by his wife's literary labours, wrote to John Murray severely criticising this book before publication, and begging him to prevail on the author to amend it. It contains two songs, one of which, beginning, "Weep for what thou'st lost, love," is accompanied by the music specially composed for it 41