1818 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. Joseph Spence

Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 January 1818; Letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1898-1901) 4:192.

navigate


You can make any loss up
With "Spence" [Observations] and his Gossip,
A work which must surely succeed;
Then Queen Mary's Epistle-craft,
With the new "Fytte" of "Whistlecraft,"
Must make people purchase and read.