["Proof b, British Museum".]]
[Footnote xxi:
"As Custom fluctuates whose Iron Sway Though ever changing Mortals must obey".
["MS. M".]]
[Footnote xxii:
"To mark the Majesty of Epic song".
["MS. L". ("a").]]
[Footnote xxiii:
"But which is preferable rhyme or blank Which holds in poesy".
["MS. L". ("a").]
[Footnote xxiv:
--"ventures to appear.--"
["MS. Corr. in Proof b, British Museum".]
[Footnote xxv:
"And Harry Monmouth, till the scenes require, Resigns heroics to his sceptred Sire."
["MS. L". (a).]]
[Footnote xxvi:
"To "hollaing Hotspur" and the sceptred sire."--
["MS. Corr. in Proof b, British Museum".]]
[Footnote xxvii:
"Dull as an Opera, I should sleep or sneer."
["MS. M".]]
[Footnote xxviii:
"And for Emotion"s aid "tis said and sung".
["MS. L, (a)".]]
[Footnote xxix:
"or form a plot".
["Proof b, British Museum".]]
[Footnote x.x.x:
"Whate"er the critic says or poet sings "Tis no slight task to write on common things".
["MS. L. (a)."]]
[Footnote x.x.xi:
"Ere o"er our heads your Muse"s Thunder rolls."
["MS. L. (a)".]]
[Footnote x.x.xii:
"Earth, Heaven and h.e.l.l, are shaken with the Song."
["MS. L. (a)".]]
[Footnote x.x.xiii:
"Through deeds we know not, though already done,"
["MS. L. (a)".]]
[Footnote x.x.xiv:
"What soothes the people"s, Peer"s, and Critic"s ear."
["MS. L. (a)".]]