the contents of the four first issues and of certain large-paper copies
of 'Hours of Idleness', etc., see 'The Bibliography of the Poetical
Works of Lord Byron', vol. vi. of the present edition.)


[text of facsimile pages of two different editions mentioned above:]

HOURS OF IDLENESS,

A SERIES OF POEMS,
ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED,

BY GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON,

A MINOR.


[Greek: Maet ar me mal ainee maete ti neichei.]

HOMER. Iliad, 10.


Virginibus puerisque Canto.

HORACE.


He whistled as he went for want of thought.

DRYDEN.