Does he think to put me down with his _Canting_, not being able to do it with his poetry?
We will try the question.

I have read his review of Hunt, where he has attacked Shelley in an oblique and shabby manner.

Does he know what that review has done?
I will tell you; it has _sold_ an edition of the "Revolt of Islam" which otherwise nobody would have thought of reading, and few who read can understand, I for one.
Southey would have attacked me too there, if he durst, further than by hints about Hunt's friends in general, and some outcry about an "Epicurean System" carried on by men of the most opposite habits and tastes and opinions in life and poetry (I believe) that ever had their names in the same volume--Moore, Byron, Shelley, Hazlitt, Haydon, Leigh Hunt, Lamb.

What resemblance do ye find among all or any of these men?
And how could any sort of system or plan be carried on or attempted amongst them?
However, let Mr.Southey look to himself; since the wine is tapped, he shall drink it.
I got some books a few weeks ago--many thanks.

Amongst them is Israeli's new edition; it was not fair in you to show him my copy of his former one, with all the marginal notes and nonsense made in Greece when I was not two-and-twenty, and which certainly were not meant for his perusal, nor for that of his readers.
I have a great respect for Israeli and his talents, and have read his works over and over and over repeatedly, and been amused by them greatly, and instructed often.