Note 15 — LORD BYRON: (continued 2)
Reading edition
On the birth of this child, who was christened John William Rizzo, Lord Byron wrote the four following lines, which are in no other respect remarkable than that they were thought worthy of being metrically translated into no less than ten different languages; namely, Greek, Latin, Italian (also in the Venetian dialect), German, French, Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew, Armenian, and Samaritan:—
"His father's sense, his mother's grace In him, I hope, will always fit so; With (still to keep him in good case) The health and appetite of Rizzo."
The original lines, with the different versions just mentioned, were printed, in a small neat volume (which now lies before me), in the seminary of Padua.