desire Mr. Kinnaird to settle from funds in their bank, and deduct
from my account with him.

"P.S. To-morrow night I am going to see 'Otello,' an opera from our
'Othello,' and one of Rossini's best, it is said. It will be
curious to see in Venice the Venetian story itself represented,
besides to discover what they will make of Shakspeare in music."

[Footnote 15: On the birth of this child, who was christened John
William Rizzo, Lord Byron wrote the four following lines, which are in
no other respect remarkable than that they were thought worthy of being
metrically translated into no less than ten different languages; namely,
Greek, Latin, Italian (also in the Venetian dialect), German, French,
Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew, Armenian, and Samaritan:--

"His father's sense, his mother's grace
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With (still to keep him in good case)
The health and appetite of Rizzo."

The original lines, with the different versions just mentioned, were
printed, in a small neat volume (which now lies before me), in the
seminary of Padua.]

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LETTER 309. TO MR. HOPPNER.

"Venice, February 28. 1818.