The "ornaments" of the Quarto reappear on pp. [1], 9, 25, 32. The numbers at the head of the pages are subscribed with a double rule. A facsimile of the Title-page faces p. x. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898.

III.

Hours of Idleness,/ A/ Series of Poems,/ Original/ And/ Translated,/ By George Gordon, Lord Byron,/ A Minor./ Μητ' αρ με μαλ' αινεε μητε τι νεικει . / Homer. Iliad, 10./ Virginibus puerisque Canto;/ Horace./ He whistled as he went for want of thought./ Dryden./ Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge;/ Sold also by B. Crosby and Co. Stationer's Court;/ Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-/Row; F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-/Yard; and J. Mawman, In the Poultry,/ London./ 1807./ [8º.

Collation—

Half-title (Hours/ of/ Idleness.), one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. [v.]-xiii. (R. Errata); Text, pp. [1]-187. The Imprint (Printed by S. and F. Ridge, Newark.) is at the foot of p. 187.

Contents—

On leaving Newsteadp. 1
On a distant view, etc.p. 4
Epitaph on a Friendp. 7
A Fragmentp. 9
The Tearp. 10
An occasional Prologuep. 15
On the Death of Mr. Foxp. 17
Stanzas ... with the Poems of Camoensp. 20
The first Kiss of Lovep. 22
To M——p. 25
To Womanp. 27
To M. S. G.p. 29
To a beautiful Quakerp. 31
To ——p. 34
To Mary, on receiving her Picturep. 37
Love's last Adieup. 39
Damætasp. 43
To Marionp. 44
Oscar of Alvap. 47
Translations And Imitations.
Adrian's Address, etc.p. 71
Translationp. 72
Translation from Catullusp. 73
Translation from the Epitaph of Virgil, etc.p. 75
Translation from Catullusp. 76
Imitation from Catullusp. 78
Translation from Anacreon. To the Lyrep. 79
Translation from Anacreon. Ode 3p. 81
Fragments of School Exercisesp. 84
Episode of Nisus and Euryalusp. 86
Translation from the Medea of Euripidesp. 106
Fugitive Pieces.
Thoughts suggested by a College Examinationp. 113
Answer to some elegant Verses, etc.p. 118
Granta, a Medleyp. 121
Lachin Y Gairp. 129
To Romancep. 133
Elegy on Newstead Abbeyp. 137
Childish Recollectionsp. 148
The Death of Calmar and Orlap. 169
To E. N. L., Esq.p. 173
To ——p. 184

Note (1).—A facsimile of the Title-page (2) faces p. xii. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898. It has been alleged that large-paper copies of this edition were issued from the Newark press. It is certain that large copies (a copy in the British Museum, cut for binding, measures 220 X 122), printed on paper bearing a water-mark dated 1806, were thrown upon the market at an early period, but it has not been ascertained at what date or in what place they were printed. They are undoubtedly deliberate forgeries. They purport, even in respect of errata, to be identical with the genuine issue of 1807; but they were not set up from the same type, and it is inconceivable that a second issue, set up from different type and with slightly different ornaments, was printed by Ridge for piratical purposes. To cite a few obvious differences—in the title of the large-paper copies the first A of the word "TRANSLATED" is printed Λ, and the Greek ν in αινεε and νεικει appears as υ (not ν reversed); in the Errata on the reverse of p. xiii., [Page] "153 Note" is incorrectly given as "163 Note," and this slip on the part of the falsarius is more remarkable, as two other errata in the Errata are carefully reproduced; in the Greek motto on p. 22 the letter ρ twice appears as ς ; and, finally, the ornaments on pp. 1 and 187, though intended to be, are not identical. In the Museum copy a portrait of "Lord Byron, from a sketch taken on his leaving England," engraved by I. West, and "Published by V. Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819," precedes the title-page, and, together with the binding, affords good, if not conclusive, proof that this copy was printed before 1820.

See, for a correspondence on these L.P. copies of 1807, the Athenæum, June, 1898, pp. 694, 695.