Fugitive Pieces , four of those first published in Poems on Various Occasions , a reprint of the twelve poems first published in Hours of Idleness , and five poems which now appeared for the first time--thirty-eight poems in all. Neither the title nor the contents of this so-called second edition corresponds exactly with the previous issue. Of the thirty-eight Fugitive Pieces which constitute the suppressed quarto, only seventeen appear in all three subsequent issues. Of the twelve additions to Poems on Various Occasions , four were excluded from Hours of Idleness , and four more from Poems Original and Translated . The collection of minor poems entitled Hours of Idleness , which has been included in every edition of Byron's
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