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National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 2p. . Previously published: Kenneth Curry (ed.), New Letters of Robert Southey, 2 vols (London and New York, 1965), II, p. 226.
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To my great surprize I have lately met with proof positive that Siphilis was known by its French
name as the prevailing pest of the age, before the discovery of America, & that it had taken the Greek
Professor at Salamanca by the nose, four years before Columbus sailed on his first voyage.xxx decided. I found it in the Epistles of Peter Martyr (of
Angleria)
Do you know that Cobbett has recommended
me for execution,dungeons to answer me with. Are not daggers as good logic as dungeons? Aye, and more manly logic too, because the use of them exposes the
killers to danger; whereas the dungeon-logicians entrench themselves safely behind an army’,
As a set off to this, certain Journeymen who propose to better their own condition by adopting
the practicable part of Owens plan quote a stanza in their Report from one of my Odes, as ‘worthy to be written in
diamonds.”!