And found substantial bliss in vexing. Thus every hour was pass’d, etc. Thus as her faults each day were known. First version: ‘Each day, the more her faults,’ etc. Now, to perplex. The first version has ‘Thus.’ But the alteration in line 61 made a change necessary. paste. First version ‘pastes.’ condemn’d to hack, i.e. to hackney, to plod. A NEW SIMILE. The _New Simile_ first appears in _Essays: By Mr. Goldsmith_, 1765, pp. 234–6, where it forms Essay xxvii. In the second edition of 1766 it occupies pp. 246–8 and forms Essay xix. The text here followed is that of the second edition, which varies slightly from the first. In both cases the poem is followed by the enigmatical initials ‘*J. B.,’ which, however, as suggested by Gibbs, may simply stand for ‘Jack Bookworm’ of _The Double Transformation_. (See p. 204.) Long had I sought in vain to find. The text of 1765 reads— ‘I long had rack’d my brains to find.’ Tooke’s Pantheon. Andrew Tooke (1673–1732) was first usher and then Master at the Charterhouse. In the latter capacity he succeeded Thomas Walker, the master of Addison and Steele. His _ Pantheon_, a revised translation from the Latin of the Jesuit, Francis Pomey, was a popular school-book of mythology, with copper-plates. Wings upon either side—mark that. The petasus of Mercury, like his sandals (l. 24), is winged. No poppy-water half so good. Poppy-water, made by boiling the heads of the white, black, or red poppy, was a favourite eighteenth-century soporific:—‘Juno shall give her peacock _poppy-water_, that he may fold his ogling tail.’ (Congreve’s _Love for Love_, 1695, iv. 3.) With this he drives men’s souls to hell. Tu.... ....virgaque levem coerces Aurea turbam.—Hor. _Od_. i. 10. Moreover, Merc’ry had a failing. Te canam.... Callidum, quidquid placuit, iocoso Condere furto.—Hor. _Od_. i. 10. Goldsmith, it will be observed, rhymes ‘failing’ and ‘stealing.’ But Pope does much the same:— That Jelly’s rich, this Malmsey healing, Pray dip your Whiskers and your tail in. (_Imitation of Horace_, Bk. ii, Sat. vi.) Unless this is to be explained by poetical licence, one of these words must have been pronounced in the eighteenth century as it is not pronounced now. In which all modern bards agree. The text of 1765 reads ‘our scribling bards.’ EDWIN AND ANGELINA.