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"It is for slaves to lie, and for freemen to speak truth.

"In the examples, which I here bring in, of what I have heard, read,
done, or said, I have forbid myself to dare to alter even the most light
and indifferent circumstances. My conscience does not falsify one tittle.
What my ignorance may do, I cannot say."
MONTAIGNE.

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LORD BYRON

AND SOME OF

HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

MR. DUBOIS.-MR. CAMPBELL.-MR. THEODORE

HOOK.-MR. MATHEWS.-MESSRS. JAMES AND

HORACE SMITH.

I FORGET how I became acquainted with Mr. Hill, proprietor of the Monthly Mirror; but at his house at Sydenham I used to meet his editor Mr. Dubois; Mr. Campbell, who was his neighbour; and the two Smiths, authors of "The Rejected Addresses." Once or twice I saw also Mr. Theodore Hook, and Mr. Mathews the comedian. Our host (and I thought him no older the other day than he

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