Constable, in reply, said he had no wish to invade literary property, but the verses had come to him without either author's name, publisher's name, or printer's name, and that there was no literary property in publications to which neither author's, publisher's, nor printer's name was attached.

Blackwood could proceed no farther.

In his letter to Murray (April 17, 1816), he wrote: "I have distributed copies of 'Fare Thee Well' and 'A Sketch' to Dr.
Thomas Brown, Walter Scott, and Professor Playfair.

One cannot read 'Fare Thee Well' without crying.

The other is 'vigorous hate,' as you say.