And breaking of frames lead to breaking of bones.

If it should prove so, I trust, by this token,

(And who will refuse to partake in the hope?)

That the frames of the fools may be first to be broken,

Who, when asked for a remedy, sent down a rope.

[First published, Morning Chronicle, Monday, March 2, 1812.]

[See a Political Ode by Lord Byron, hitherto unknown as his production, London, John Pearson, 46, Pall Mall, 1880, 8º. See, too, Mr. Pearson's prefatory Note, pp. 5, etc.]

FOOTNOTES:

[20]  ["Lord Byron to Editor of the Morning Chronicle. 

[20]

Lord Byron to Editor of the Morning Chronicle

 Sir,—I take the liberty of sending an alteration of the two last lines of stanza 2d, which I wish to run as follows:— 

'Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the scenery,

Shewing how commerce, how liberty thrives.'

 I wish you could insert it tomorrow for a particular reason; but I feel much obliged by your inserting it at all. Of course do not put my name to the thing—believe me, 

 Your obliged and very obedient servant, BYRON. 

Your obliged

and very obedient servant,

BYRON.

 8, St. James's Street, Sunday, March 1, 1812."] 

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