[Footnote xlii:
"While Kenny"s World just suffered to proceed Proclaims the audience very kind indeed".--
["MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions".]]
[Footnote xliii:
"Resume her throne again".--
["MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions."]]
[Footnote xliv:--
"and Kemble lives to tread".--
["British Bards. First to Fourth Editions."]]
[Footnote xlv:
"St. George [A] and Goody Goose divide the prize."--
[MS. alternative in British Bards.]
[Sub-Footnote A: We need not inform the reader that we do not allude to the Champion of England who slew the Dragon. Our St. George is content to draw status with a very different kind of animal.--[Pencil note to "British Bards".]]]
[Footnote xlvi:
"Its humble flight to splendid Pantomimes".
["British Bards. MS"]]
[Footnote xlvii:
"Behold the new Petronius of the times The skilful Arbiter of modern crimes."
["MS."]
[Footnote xlviii:
"----a Paget for your wife."
["MS. First to Fourth Editions."]]
[Footnote xlix:
"From Grosvenor Place or Square".
["MS. British Bards".]]
[Footnote l:
"On one alone Apollo deigns to smile And crowns a new Roscommon in Carlisle."
["MS. Addition to British Bards."]
"Nor e"en a hackneyed Muse will deign to smile On minor Byron, or mature Carlisle."
[First Edition.]
[Footnote li:
"Yet at their fiat----"
"Yet at their nausea----."
["MS. Addition to British Bards".]]
[Footnote lii:
"Such sneering fame."
["British Bards"]
[Footnote liii:
"Though Bell has lost his nightingales and owls, Matilda snivels still and Hafiz howls, And Crusca"s spirit rising from the dead Revives in Laura, Quiz, and X. Y. Z."--
["British Bards. First to Third Editions", 1810.]]
[Footnote liv:
"None since the past have claimed the tribute due".
["British Bards. MS".]]
[Footnote lv: