Yours," &c.

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LETTER 276. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Foligno, April 26. 1817.

"I wrote to you the other day from Florence, inclosing a MS.
entitled 'The Lament of Tasso.' It was written in consequence of my
having been lately at Ferrara. In the last section of this MS. _but
one_ (that is, the penultimate), I think that I have omitted a line
in the copy sent to you from Florence, viz. after the line--

"And woo compassion to a blighted name,

insert,

"Sealing the sentence which my foes proclaim.

The _context_ will show you _the sense_, which is not clear in this
quotation. _Remember, I write this in the supposition that you have
received my Florentine packet._

"At Florence I remained but a day, having a hurry for Rome, to
which I am thus far advanced. However, I went to the two galleries,
from which one returns drunk with beauty. The Venus is more for
admiration than love; but there are sculpture and painting, which
for the first time at all gave me an idea of what people mean by
their _cant_, and what Mr. Braham calls 'entusimusy' (_i.e._