The Works OF LORD BYRON 

OF

LORD BYRON

 A NEW, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 

                   Poetry. Vol. VII. 

 EDITED BY ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE, M.A., HON. F.R.S.L. 

EDITED BY

HON. F.R.S.L.

 LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. 

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1904.

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 PREFACE TOTHE SEVENTH VOLUME. 

 Of the seventy-three "Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit," which are printed at the commencement of this volume, forty-five were included in Murray's one-volume edition of 1837, eighteen have been collected from various publications, and ten are printed and published for the first time.

The "Devil's Drive," which appears in Moore's Letters and Journals, and in the sixth volume of the Collected Edition of 1831 as an "Unfinished Fragment" of ninety-seven lines, is now printed and published for the first time in its entirety (248 lines), from a MS. in the possession of the Earl of Ilchester. "A Farewell Petition to J. C. H. Esq.;" "My Boy Hobbie O;" "[Love and Death];" and "Last Words on Greece," are reprinted from the first volume of Murray's Magazine (1887).

[vi] A few imperfect and worthless poems remain in MS.; but with these and one or two other unimportant exceptions, the present edition of the Poetical Works may be 

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