"'Video meliora proboque,'
however the 'deteriora sequor' may have been applied to my conduct.
"I have the honour to be
"Your obliged and obedient servant,
"Byron.
"P.S. I do not know that I am addressing a clergyman; but I presume that you will not be affronted by the mistake (if it is one) on the address of this letter. One who has so well explained, and deeply felt, the doctrines of religion, will excuse the error which led me to believe him its minister."
LETTER 470. TO MR. MURRAY.
"Pisa, December 4. 1821.