Why would they let him print his lays?

3.

4.[19]

[19]

5.

To me, divine Apollo, grant—O!

Hermilda's[31] first and second canto,

I'm fitting up a new portmanteau;

6.

And thus to furnish decent lining,

My own and others' bays I'm twining,—

So, gentle Thurlow, throw me thine in.

                                               June 2, 1813. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 396.] 

FOOTNOTES:

[30] [One evening, in the late spring or early summer of 1813, Byron and Moore supped on bread and cheese with Rogers. Their host had just received from Lord Thurlow [Edward Hovell Thurlow, 1781-1829] a copy of his Poems on Several Occasions (1813), and Byron lighted upon some lines to Rogers, "On the Poem of Mr. Rogers, entitled 'An Epistle to a Friend.'" The first stanza ran thus— 

[30]

"When Rogers o'er this labour bent,

Their purest fire the Muses lent,

T' illustrate this sweet argument."

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