Byron had already written his "Stanzas to a Lady Weeping," suggested by the rumour that Princess Charlotte had burst into tears, on being told that there would be no change of Ministry when the Prince of Wales assumed the Regency. They appeared anonymously in the
Morning Chronicle
for March 7, 1812, under the title of a "Sympathetic
Address
to a Young Lady." They were published, as Byron's work, with
The Corsair
, in February, 1814. The verses rather betray the influence of Moore than express his own feelings at the time. In
Don Juan
(Canto XII. stanza lxxxiv.) he thus speaks of the Regent—