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　　LETTER 523

　　CHARLES LAMB TO SAMUEL ROGERS

　　[Dated at end: Oct. 5, 1830.]

　　Dear Sir,—I know not what hath bewitch'd me that I have delayed acknowledging your beautiful present. But I have been very unwell and nervous of late. The poem was not new to me, tho' I have renewed acquaintance with it. Its metre is none of the least of its excellencies. 'Tis so far from the stiffness of blank verse—it gallops like a traveller, as it should do—no crude Miltonisms in [it]. Dare I pick out what most pleases me? It is the middle paragraph in page thirty-four. It is most tasty. Though I look on every impression as a proof of your kindness, I am jealous of the ornaments, and should have prized the verses naked on whitybrown paper.

　　I am, Sir, yours truly,

　　C. LAMB.

　　Oct. 5th.

　　[Rogers had sent Lamb a copy of his Italy, with illustrations by Turner and Stothard, which was published by Moxon with other firms in 183O. This is the middle paragraph on page 34:—

　　Here I received from thee, Basilico,

　　One of those courtesies so sweet, so rare!

　　When, as I rambled thro' thy vineyard-ground

　　On the hill-side, thou sent'st thy little son,

　　Charged with a bunch almost as big as he,

　　To press it on the stranger. May thy vats

　　O'erflow, and he, thy willing gift-bearer,

　　Live to become a giver; and, at length,

　　When thou art full of honour and wouldst rest,

　　The staff of thine old age!] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6