(Found its way to the public prints through the imprudence of _a friend_.) II.

March 29, 1816 .-- An attack on Lady Byron's old governess for having been born poor, for being homely, and for having unduly influenced his wife against him; promising that her grave should be a fiery bed, etc.; also praising his wife's perfect and remarkable truthfulness and discernment, that made it impossible for flattery to fool, or baseness blind her; but ascribing all his woes to her being fooled and blinded by this same governess.

(Found its way to the prints by the imprudence of _a friend_.) III.

September 1816 .-- Lines on hearing that Lady Byron is ill.

Calls her a Clytemnestra, who has secretly set assassins on her lord; says she is a mean, treacherous, deceitful liar, and has entirely departed from her early truth, and become the most unscrupulous and unprincipled of women.