_Foster-Mother._ He went on shipboard With those bold voyagers, who made discovery Of golden lands. Leoni's younger brother Went likewise, and when he return'd to Spain, He told Leoni, that the poor mad youth, 75 Soon after they arriv'd in that new world, In spite of his dissuasion, seiz'd a boat, And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight Up a great river, great as any sea, And ne'er was heard of more: but 'tis suppos'd, 80 He liv'd and died among the savage men. 1797. FOOTNOTES: [182:1] First published in the first edition of the _Lyrical Ballads_, 1798, and reprinted in the editions of 1800, 1803, and 1805. The 'dramatic fragment' was excluded from the acting version of _Remorse_, but was printed in an Appendix, p. 75, to the Second Edition of the Play, 1813. It is included in the body of the work in _Sibylline Leaves_, 1817, and again in 1852, and in the Appendix to _Remorse_ in the editions of 1828, 1829, and 1834. It is omitted from 1844. 'The "Foster-Mother's Tale," (From Mr. C.'s own handwriting)' was published in Cottle's _Early Recollections_, i. 235. 'The following scene as unfit for the stage was taken from the Tragedy in 1797, and published in the _Lyrical Ballads_. But this work having been long out of print, and it having been determined, that this with my other poems in that collection (the _Nightingale_, _Love_, and the _Ancient Mariner_) should be omitted in any future edition, I have been advised to reprint it as a Note to the Second Scene of Act the Fourth, p. 55.' App. to _Remorse_, Ed. 2, 1813. [This note is reprinted in 1828 and 1829, but in 1834 only the first sentence is prefixed to the scene.] LINENOTES: Title] Foster-Mother's Tale. (Scene--Spain) Cottle, 1837: The, &c. A Narration in Dramatic Blank Verse L. B. 1800. In Remorse, App., 1813 and in 1828, 1829, 1834, the _dramatis personae_ are respectively Teresa and Selma. The fragment opens thus:--_Enter Teresa and Selma._ _Ter._ 'Tis said, he spake of you familiarly As mine and Alvar's common foster-mother. In Cottle's version, the scene begins at line 4. [1] man] Moor _Osorio_, MS. I. [12-16] O my dear Mother . . . She gazes idly! om. 1813, 1828, 1829, 1834. [12] me] us Cottle, 1837. [13] the] yon _Osorio_, MS. I. [16] In Lyrical Ballads, 1800, the scene begins with the words: 'But that entrance'. But that entrance, Selma? 1813. [19] Leoni] Sesina 1813, 1828, 1829, 1834. [27] Velez'] Valdez' 1813, 1828, 1829, 1834: Valez' S. L. 1817. [34] To gather seeds 1813, S. L. 1817, 1828, 1829, 1834. [36] gather'd] oft culled S. L. 1817. [41] So he became a rare and learned youth 1813, 1828, 1829, 1834. [41-2] So he became a very learned man. But O poor youth Cottle, 1837. [48] Velez] Valdez 1813, 1828, 1829, 1834: Valez S. L. 1817. [54] made a confession _Osorio_. A fever seiz'd the youth and he made confession Cottle, 1837.