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A TALE.

BY LORD BYRON.

I suoi pensieri in lui dormir non ponno."

TASSO, Canto decimo, Gerusalemme Liberata.

TENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1818.

BODLEIAN

2NOW. 1932

LIBRARY

ΤΟ

THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.

MY DEAR MOORE,

I DEDICATE to you the last production with which I shall trespass on public patience, and your indulgence, for some years; and I own that I feel anxious to avail myself of this latest and only opportunity of adorning my pages with a name, consecrated by unshaken public principle, and the most undoubted and various talents. While Ireland ranks you among the firmest of her patriots; while you stand alone the first of her bards in her estimation, and Britain repeats and ratifies the decree, permit one, whose only regret, since our first acquaintance, has been the years he had lost before it commenced, to add the humble, but sincere suffrage of friendship, to the voice of more than one nation. It will at least prove to

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