A TALE. BY LORD BYRON. I suoi pensieri in lui dormir non ponno." TASSO, Canto decimo, Gerusalemme Liberata. NINTH EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 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 b |