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XV.

English Bards,/ and/ Scotch Reviewers./ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, Mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ _Shakespeare_./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet, 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ _Pope_./ London:/ Benbow, Printer and Publisher, Byron's Head,/ Castle-Street, Leicester-Square./ 1823,/ [12º.

_Collation_--

Pp. v. + [7]-61. The Imprint (_W. Benbow, Printer, Castle-st. Leicester-sq._) is at the foot of p. 61.

_Note_.--The Text numbers 1050 lines. This edition follows the Third Edition of 1810.