I shall invade you in the course of the winter, out of envy, as Lucifer looked at Adam and Eve.

Pray be as happy as you can, and write to me that I may catch the infection.

Yours ever,

Byron

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[Footnote 1:]

Webster had sent Byron a letter from Naylor Hare, in which the latter criticized Hodgson's poems,

Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and other Poems (1809)

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