["MS. First to Fourth Editions"]]
[Footnote xvi:
"--though lesser bards content--"
["British Bards"]
[Footnote xvii:
"How well the subject."
["MS. First to Fourth Editions."]]
[Footnote xviii:
"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind."--
["British Bards, First to Fourth Editions."]]
[Footnote xix:
"Who fain would"st."
["British Bards, First to Fifth Editions".]]
[Footnote xx:
"Mend thy life, and sin no more."
["MS."]]
[Footnote xxi:
"And o"er harmonious nonsense."
["MS. First Edition."]]
[Footnote xxii:
"In many marble-covered volumes view Hayley, in vain attempting something new, Whether he spin his comedies in rhyme, Or scrawls as Wood and Barclay [A] walk, "gainst Time."
["MS. British Bards", and "First to Fourth Editions."]
[Sub-Footnote A: Captain Robert Barclay (1779-1854) of Ury, agriculturalist and pedestrian, came of a family noted for physical strength and endurance. Byron saw him win his walk against Wood at Newmarket. (See Angelo"s "Reminiscences" (1837), vol. ii. pp. 37-44.) In July, 1809, Barclay completed his task of walking a thousand miles in a thousand hours, at the rate of one mile in each and every hour. (See, too, for an account of Barclay, "The Eccentric Review" (1812), i.
133-150.)]]
[Footnote xxiii:
"Breaks into mawkish lines each holy Book".
["MS. First Edition".] ]
[Footnote xxiv:
"Thy "Sympathy" that".
["British Bards".] ]
[Footnote xxv:
"And shows dissolved in sympathetic tears".
"----in thine own melting tears.--"
["MS. First to Fourth Editions".]]
[Footnote xxvi:
"Whether in sighing winds them seek"st relief Or Consolation in a yellow leaf.--"
["MS. first to Fourth Editions."] ]
[Footnote xxvii:
"What pretty sounds."
["British Bards."] ]
[Footnote xxviii:
"Thou fain woulds"t----"
["British Bards."] ]