Frederick Howard, in the third canto of Childe Harold, he tried to make amends in the lines Yet one I would select from that proud throng, Partly because they blend me with his line, And partly that I did his sire some wrong.

See also the Two Cantos of Mutability, Cant.

It has been already mentioned, that while the poet was at Dr Glennie's academy at Dulwich, he read an account of a shipwreck, which has been supposed to have furnished some of the most striking incidents in the description of the disastrous voyage in the second canto in Don Juan.

"Pulci," he says, "commences all his cantos by a sacred invocation; and the interests of religion are constantly intermingled with the adventures of his story, in a manner capricious and little instructive.

However, "no one thinks now of attributing this canto to either St. Ambrose or St. Augustine" (Battifol, op.

"She might then have increased her knowledge, by listening to a few cantos from the epic of Mr. Dodge.

He did so; and the poem was soon finished, proceeding at the rate of about a canto per week.

Most critics regarded the long introduction to each canto as a defect, since it broke the continuity of the narrative; but it may at least be said that these preludes give an interesting insight into the author's moods and views.