ВЕРРО.

T. DAVISON, LOMBARD-STREET, WHITEFRIARS.

A VENETIAN STORY.

BY LORD BYRON.

ROSALIND. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits; disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your Nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will scarce think that you have swam in a GONDOLA.

AS YOU LIKE IT, Act IV. Sc. I.

Annotation of the Commentators.

That is, been at Venice, which was much visited by the young English gentlemen of those times, and was then what Paris is now-the seat of all dissoluteness. S. A.

SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1818.

ВЕРРО.

I.

"TIS known, at least it should be, that throughout All countries of the Catholic persuasion,

Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about,
The people take their fill of recreation,

And buy repentance, ere they grow devout,
However high their rank, or low their station,

With fiddling, feasting, dancing, drinking, masquing,
And other things which may be had for asking.

B