LETTER 323. TO MR. MURRAY.
"Venice, September 24. 1818.
"In the one hundredth and thirty-second stanza of Canto fourth, the stanza runs in the manuscript—
"And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the unbalanced scale, great Nemesis!
and not 'lost,' which is nonsense, as what losing a scale means, I know not; but leaving an unbalanced scale, or a scale unbalanced, is intelligible.[28] Correct this, I pray,—not for the public, or the poetry, but I do not choose to have blunders made in addressing any of the deities so seriously as this is addressed.
"Yours, &c.
"P.S. In the translation from the Spanish, alter
"In increasing squadrons flew,
to—