and thence on to Verona, where I did not forget your story of the assassination during your sojourn there, and brought away with me some fragments of Juliet’s tomb, and a lively recollection of the amphitheatre.  The Countess Goetz (the governor’s wife here) told me that there is still a ruined castle of the Montecchi between Verona and Vicenza.  I have been at Venice since November, but shall proceed to Rome shortly.  For my deeds here, are they not written in my letters to the unreplying Thomas Moore? to him I refer you:  he has received them all, and not answered one.

“Will you remember me to Lord and Lady Holland?  I have to thank the former for a book which.  I have not yet received, but expect to reperuse with great pleasure on my return, viz. the 2d edition of Lope de Vega.  I have heard of Moore’s forthcoming poem:  he cannot wish himself more success than I wish and augur for him.  I have also heard great things of ‘Tales of my Landlord,’ but I have not yet received them; by all accounts they beat even Waverley, &c., and are by the same author.  Maturin’s second tragedy has, it seems, failed, for which I should think any body would be sorry.  My health was very victorious till within the last month, when I had a fever.  There is a typhus in these parts, but I don’t think it was that.  However, I got well without a physician or drugs.

“I forgot to tell you that, last autumn, I furnished Lewis with ‘bread and salt’ for some days at Diodati, in reward for which (besides his conversation) he translated ‘Goethe’s Faust’ to me by word of mouth, and I set him by the ears with Madame de Stael about the slave trade.  I am indebted for many and kind courtesies to our Lady of Copet, and I now love her as much as I always did her works, of which I was and am a great admirer.  When are you to begin with Sheridan? what are you doing, and how do you do?  Ever very truly,” &c.

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

LONDON: 

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