Note 15 — Chapter VIII
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Byron showed his love of humour even in some of these early effusions, speaking of his college he says:
"Our choir would scarcely be excused, Even as a band of raw beginners: All mercy, now, must be refused To such a set of croaking sinners. If David, when his toils were ended Had heard these blockheads sing before him, To us his psalms had ne'er descended; In furious mood, he would have tore 'em."