gratitude

, and the word "

grateful

" in these lines, and in his dedication of

The Bride of Abydos

, has a delightful similarity of meaning. His Lordship is pleased to add, in an explanatory note to this passage, that Lord Holland's life of Lopez de Vega, and his translated specimens of that author, are much "

Bepraised

by these disinterested guests

." Lord Byron well knows that

bepraise