or,
"Which wraps presumption".
["MS. M. erased".]]
[Footnote viii:
"As when the poet to description yields Of waters gliding through the goodly fields; The Groves of Granta and her Gothic Halls, Oxford and Christchurch, London and St. Pauls, Or with a ruder flight he feebly aims To paint a rainbow or the River Thames.
Perhaps you draw a fir tree or a beech, But then a landscape is beyond your reach; Or, if that allegory please you not, Take this--you"ld form a vase, but make a pot".
["MS. L". ("a").]]
[Footnote ix:
"Although you sketch a tree which Taste endures, Your ill-daubed Shipwreck shocks the Connoisseurs."
["MS. M."]]
[Footnote x:
"The greater portion of the men of rhyme Parents and children or their Sires sublime".
["MS. M".]]
[Footnote xi:
"But change the malady they strive to cure".
["MS. L. (a").]]
[Footnote xii:
"Fish in the woods and wild-boars in the waves".
["MS. M".]]
[Footnote xiii:
"For Coat and waistcoat Slowshears is your man, But Breeches claim another Artisan; Now this to me I own seems much the same As one leg perfect and the other lame".
["MSS. M., L. (a").]
"Sweitzer is your man".
[MS. M. "erased".]]
[Footnote xiv:
"Him who hath sense to make a skilful choice Nor lucid Order, nor the Siren Voice Of Eloquence shall shun, and Wit and Grace (Or I"m deceived) shall aid him in the Race: These too will teach him to defer or join To future parts the now omitted line: This shall the Author like or that reject, Sparing in words and cautious to select: Nor slight applause will candid pens afford To him who well compounds a wanting word, And if, by chance, "tis needful to produce Some term long laid and obsolete in use".--
["MSS. M., L". ("a" and "b"). "The last line partly erased."]
[Footnote xv:
"The dextrous Coiner of a" wanting "word".--
["Proof b, British Museum".]]
[Footnote xvi:
"Adroitly grafted."
["Proof b, British Museum".]]
[Footnote xvii:
"Since they enriched our language in their time In modern speeches or Black letter rhyme."
["MS. L. (a)".]]
[Footnote xviii:
"Though at a Monarch"s nod, and Traffic"s call Reluctant rivers deviate to Ca.n.a.l".
["MSS. M., L". ("a" and "b").]]
[Footnote xix:
"marshes dried, sustain".
["Proof b, British Museum".]]
[Footnote xx:
"Thus--future years dead volumes shall revive".