., line 820), he appeals to Gifford, who was an old family friend, to return to the fray:—
"Oh! for that voice, whose cadence loud and strong
Drove Delia Crusca from the field of song —
And with a force that guiltier fools should feel,
Rack'd a vain butterfly on Satire's wheel."
In a note appended to the words in his satire — "Like clowns detest nobility" — he refers to the
Edinburgh's
treatment of Byron's verse.
The link thus established between Byron and Hodgson grew stronger for the next few years. Hodgson suppressed Moore's challenge to the author of
English Bards
; was Byron's guest at Newstead (see page 179, in
); pleaded with him on the subject of religion; translated his lines, "I would I were a careless child," into Latin verse (