is printed
"And praise their rhymes, &c.
Also 'precarious' for 'precocious;' and this line, stanza 133.
"And this strong extreme effect to tire no longer.
Now do turn to the manuscript and see if I ever wrote such a line: it is not verse.
"No wonder the poem should fail (which, however, it won't, you will see) with such things allowed to creep about it. Replace what is omitted, and correct what is so shamefully misprinted, and let the poem have fair play; and I fear nothing.
"I see in the last two numbers of the Quarterly a strong itching to assail me (see the review of 'The Etonian'); let it, and see if they sha'n't have enough of it. I do not allude to Gifford, who has always been my friend, and whom I do not consider as responsible for the articles written by others.
"You will publish the plays when ready. I am in such a humour about this printing of Don Juan so inaccurately, that I must close this.
"Yours.
"P.S. I presume that you have not lost the stanza to which I allude? It was sent afterwards: look over my letters and find it."