But what is to be the end of all this rigmarole of mine?
To conclude, this--to advise you, for your own sake as a tradesman, for Lord Byron's sake as a poet, for the sake of good literature and good principles, which ought to be united, to take such measures as you may be able to venture upon to get Lord Byron to revise these two cantos, and not to make another step in the odious path which Hobhouse beckons him to pursue....
Yours ever, J.W.

CROKER.
But Byron would alter nothing more in his "Don Juan." He accepted the corrections of Gifford in his "Tragedies," but "Don Juan" was never submitted to him.

Hobhouse was occasionally applied to, because he knew Lord Byron's handwriting; but even his suggestions of alterations or corrections of "Don Juan" were in most cases declined, and moreover about this time a slight coolness had sprung up between him and Byron.
When Hobhouse was standing for Westminster with Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Byron sent a song about him in a letter to Mr.Murray.It ran to the tune of "My Boy Tammy?
O!" "Who are now the People's men?
My boy Hobby O! Yourself and Burdett, Gentlemen, And Blackguard Hunt and Cobby O! "When to the mob you make a speech, My boy Hobby O! How do you keep without their reach The watch without your fobby O ?" [Footnote: The rest of the song is printed in _Murray's Magazine_, No.

3.] Lord Byron asked Murray to show the song not only to some of his friends--who got it by heart and had it printed in the newspapers--but also to Hobhouse himself.

"I know," said his Lordship, "that he will never forgive me, but I really have no patience with him for letting himself be put in quod by such a set of ragamuffins." Mr.Hobhouse, however, was angry with Byron for his lampoon and with Murray for showing it to his friends.