Stanza 2 line 3, frantic _for_ lawless. „ 3 „ 1, their country’s _for_ domestic. „ 3 „ 1, and wealth and _for_ external. „ 3 „ 3, honoured _for_ sacred. „ 4 „ 1, now _for_ then. „ 4 „ 3, advocate _for_ tool confessed. „ 4 „ 4, later _for_ modern. „ 5 „ 2, thus _for_ now. „ 5 „ 4, Catiline _for_ Cataline. „ 5 „ 4, modern _for_ later.—ED.] Footnote 121: [Written to ridicule Richard Payne Knight’s _Progress of Civil Society_, a Didactic Poem, in Six Books. London, 1796, 4to.—ED.] Footnote 122: _Ver._ 3. A modern author of great penetration and judgment observes very shrewdly, that “the cosmogony of the world has puzzled the philosophers of all ages. What a medley of opinions have they not broached upon the creation of the world. Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus have all attempted it in vain. The latter has these words—_Anarchon ara kai ateleutaion to pan_—which imply, that all things have neither beginning nor end.” See Goldsmith’s _Vicar of Wakefield_; see also Mr. Knight’s Poem on the _Progress of Civil Society_. Footnote 123: _Ver._ 12. The influence of Mind upon Matter, comprehending the whole question of the Existence of Mind as independent of Matter, or as co-existent with it, and of Matter considered as an intelligent and self-dependent Essence, will make the subject of a larger Poem in 127 Books, now preparing under the _same_ auspices. Footnote 124: _Ver._ 14. See Godwin’s _Enquirer_; Darwin’s _Zoonomia_; Paine; Priestley, &c. &c.; also all the French Encyclopædists. Footnote 125: _Ver._ 16. _Quæstio spinosa et contortula._ Footnote 126: _Ver._ 26. “Add thereto a tiger’s chawdron.”—Macbeth. Footnote 127: _Ver._ 26, 27. “In softer notes bids Lybian lions roar, And warms the whale on Zembla’s frozen shore.” _Progress of Civil Society_, Book I. ver. 98. Footnote 128: _Ver._ 29. “An oyster may be crossed in love.”—Mr. Sheridan’s _Critic_. Footnote 129: _Ver._ 34. Birds fly. Footnote 130: _Ver._ 35. But neither fish, nor beasts—particularly as here exemplified. Footnote 131: _Ver._ 36. The bear. Footnote 132: _Ver._ 37. The mackerel—there are also _hard-roed_ mackerel. _Sed de his alio loco._ Footnote 133: _Ver._ 38. Bear’s _grease_, or _fat_, is also in great request; being supposed to have a _criniparous_, or hair-producing quality. Footnote 134: _Ver._ 39. There is a special Act of Parliament which permits mackerel to be cried on Sundays. Footnote 135: _Ver._ 45 to 49. Every animal contented with the lot which it has drawn in life. A fine contrast to man, who is always discontented. Footnote 136: _Ver._ 49. _Salt wave_—wave of the sea—“_briny wave_”.—Poetæ passim. Footnote 137: