Bandy Venetian slang with the Benzòn,
Or play at company with the Albrizzi,
The self-pleased pedant, and patrician crone,
Grimanis, Mocenigos, Balbis, Rizzi,
Compassionate our cruel case,--alone,
Our pleasure an academy of frogs,
Who nightly serenade us from the bogs," &c. &c.
]

[Footnote 20: "I have _hunted_ out a precedent for this unceremonious
address."]

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LETTER 315. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Venice, April 17. 1818.

"A few days ago, I wrote to you a letter, requesting you to desire
Hanson to desire his messenger to come on from Geneva to Venice,
because I won't go from Venice to Geneva; and if this is not done,
the messenger may be damned, with him who mis-sent him. Pray
reiterate my request.

"With the proofs returned, I sent two additional stanzas for Canto
fourth: did they arrive?

"Your Monthly reviewer has made a mistake: _Cavaliere_, alone, is
well enough; but '_Cavalier' servente_' has always the _e_ mute in
conversation, and omitted in writing; so that it is not for the