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Hours of Idleness,/ A/ Series of Poems,/ Original/ And/ Translated,/ By George Gordon, Lord Byron,/ A Minor./

[Greek: Mêt' ar me mal' ainee mête ti neikei]. / Homer. Iliad, 10./ Virginibus puerisque Canto;/ Horace./ He whistled as he went for want of thought./ Dryden./ Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge;/ Sold also by B. Crosby and Co. Stationer's Court;/ Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-/Row; F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-/Yard; and J. Mawman, In the Poultry,/ London./ 1807./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Half-title (Hours/ of/ Idleness.), one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. [v.]-xiii. (R. _Errata_); Text, pp. [1]-187. The Imprint (_Printed by S. and F. Ridge, Newark_.) is at the foot of p. 187.

_Contents_--

On leaving Newstead p. 1 On a distant view, etc. p. 4 Epitaph on a Friend p. 7 A Fragment p. 9 The Tear p. 10 An occasional Prologue p. 15 On the Death of Mr. Fox p. 17 Stanzas ... with the Poems of Camoens p. 20 The first Kiss of Love p. 22 To M---- p. 25 To Woman p. 27 To M.S.G. p. 29 To a beautiful Quaker p. 31 To ---- p. 34 To Mary, on receiving her Picture p. 37 Love's last Adieu p. 39 Damætas p. 43 To Marion p. 44 Oscar of Alva p. 47

TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS.

Adrian's Address, etc. p. 71 Translation p. 72 Translation from Catullus p. 73 Translation from the Epitaph of Virgil, etc. p. 75 Translation from Catullus p. 76 Imitation from Catullus p. 78 Translation from Anacreon. To the Lyre p. 79 Translation from Anacreon. Ode 3 p. 81 Fragments of School Exercises p. 84 Episode of Nisus and Euryalus p. 86 Translation from the Medea of Euripides p. 106

FUGITIVE PIECES.

Thoughts suggested by a College Examination p. 113 Answer to some elegant Verses, etc. p. 118 Granta, a Medley p. 121 Lachin Y Gair p. 129 To Romance p. 133 Elegy on Newstead Abbey p. 137 Childish Recollections p. 148 The Death of Calmar and Orla p. 169 To E.N.L., Esq. p. 173 To ---- p. 184

_Note_ (1).--A facsimile of the Title-page (2) faces p. xii. of vol. i. of the _Poetical Works_, 1898. It has been alleged that large-paper copies of this edition were issued from the Newark press. It is certain that large copies (a copy in the British Museum, cut for binding, measures 220 X 122), printed on paper bearing a water-mark dated 1806, were thrown upon the market at an early period, but it has not been ascertained at what date or in what place they were printed. They are undoubtedly deliberate forgeries. They purport, even in respect of _errata_, to be identical with the genuine issue of 1807; but they were not set up from the same type, and it is inconceivable that a second issue, set up from different type and with slightly different ornaments, was printed by Ridge for piratical purposes. To cite a few obvious differences--in the title of the large-paper copies the first A of the word "TRANSLATED" is printed

[Greek: L ], and the Greek [Greek: n] in [Greek: ainee] and [Greek: neikei] appears as [Greek: u] (not [Greek: n] reversed); in the Errata on the reverse of p. xiii., [Page] "153 Note" is incorrectly given as "163 Note," and this slip on the part of the _falsarius_ is more remarkable, as two other errata in the Errata are carefully reproduced; in the Greek motto on p. 22 the letter [Greek: r] twice appears as [Greek: s]; and, finally, the ornaments on pp. 1 and 187, though intended to be, are not identical. In the Museum copy a portrait of "Lord Byron, from a sketch taken on his leaving England," engraved by I. West, and "Published by V. Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819," precedes the title-page, and, together with the binding, affords good, if not conclusive, proof that this copy was printed before 1820.

See, for a correspondence on these L.P. copies of 1807, the _Athenæum_, June, 1898, pp. 694, 695.

See, too, for further interesting and conclusive evidence that the ornament on p. 187 of the L.P. copies was not printed from the Newark block, _Newark as a Publishing Town_, by T.M. Blagg, 1898, pp. 28-30.

_Note_ (2).--An autograph note, dated May 20th, 1812, signed "Byron," is inserted on the fly-leaf of a large-paper copy in the Rowfant Library (_Catalogue_, 1886, p. 144).