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The text presents the poem’s opening invocations and narrative setup, including the desire for a true hero, commentary on contemporary public fame, and the author’s chosen method of beginning with origins. 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 \nFollowers of fame,\"nine farrow\"of that sow:France,too,had Buonaparte and Dumourler;Recorded in the Moniteur and Courieri  \nIE.  \nBarnave,Brissot,Condorcet,Mirabeau,  \nPetion,Clootz,Danton,Marat,La Fayette,Were French,and famous people,as we know;  \nAnd there were others;scarce forgotten yet,Joubert,Hoche,Marceau,Lannes,Desaix,Moreau,  \nWith many of the military set,Exceedingly remarkable at times,But not at all adapted to my rbymes:  \n●  \nBYRON's WORKS.  \nIV.  \nNelson was once Britannia's god of war,And still should be so,but the tide is turn'd;There 's no more to be said of Trafalgar,'T is with our hero quietly inurn'd,Because the army 's grown more popular,  \nAt which the naval people are concern'd;Besides,the prince is all for the land-service,Forgetting Duncan,Nelson,Howe,and Jervis.  \nV.  \nBrave men were living before Agamemnon,And since,exceeding valorous and sage,  \nA good deal like him too,though quite the same none,But then they shone not on the poet's page,  \nAnd so have been forgotten:—I condemn none,But can't find any in the present ageFit for my poem(that is,for my new one);So,as I said,I 'Il take my friend Don Juan.  \nVI.  \nMost epic poets plunge in“medias res”(Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road),And then your hero tells,whene'er you please,What went before—by way of episode,While seated after dinner at his ease,Beside his mistress in some soft abode,Palace or garden,paradise or cavern,Which serves the happy couple for a tavern.  \nVHI,  \nThat is the usual method,but not mine—My way is to begin with the beginning; 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