(5) Byroniana No. 2 (The Courier, February 8, 1814)

.

"

Crede Byron

" is Lord Byron's armorial motto;

Trust Byron

is the translation in the Red-book. We cannot but admire the ingenuity with which his Lordship has converted the good faith of his ancestors into a sarcasm on his own duplicity.

"Could nothing but your chief reproach,
Serve for a motto on your coach?"

Poor Lord Carlisle; he, no doubt,