['MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions.']] [Footnote xliv:-- 'and Kemble lives to tread'.-- ['British Bards. First to Fourth Editions.']] [Footnote xlv: 'St. George [A] and Goody Goose divide the prize.'-- [MS. alternative in British Bards.] [Sub-Footnote A: We need not inform the reader that we do not allude to the Champion of England who slew the Dragon. Our St. George is content to draw status with a very different kind of animal.--[Pencil note to 'British Bards'.]]] [Footnote xlvi: 'Its humble flight to splendid Pantomimes'. ['British Bards. MS']] [Footnote xlvii: 'Behold the new Petronius of the times The skilful Arbiter of modern crimes.' ['MS.'] [Footnote xlviii: '----a Paget for your wife.' ['MS. First to Fourth Editions.']] [Footnote xlix: 'From Grosvenor Place or Square'. ['MS. British Bards'.]] [Footnote l: 'On one alone Apollo deigns to smile And crowns a new Roscommon in Carlisle.' ['MS. Addition to British Bards.'] 'Nor e'en a hackneyed Muse will deign to smile On minor Byron, or mature Carlisle.' [First Edition.] [Footnote li: 'Yet at their fiat----' 'Yet at their nausea----.' ['MS. Addition to British Bards'.]] [Footnote lii: 'Such sneering fame.' ['British Bards'] [Footnote liii: 'Though Bell has lost his nightingales and owls, Matilda snivels still and Hafiz howls, And Crusca's spirit rising from the dead Revives in Laura, Quiz, and X. Y. Z.'-- ['British Bards. First to Third Editions', 1810.]] [Footnote liv: 'None since the past have claimed the tribute due'. ['British Bards. MS'.]] [Footnote lv: 'From Albion's cliffs to Caledonia's coast. Some few who know to write as well as feel'. ['MS'.]] [Footnote lvi: 'The spoiler came; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there.--' ['First to Fourth Editions']] [Footnote lvii: 'On him may meritorious honours tend While doubly mingling,'. ['MS. erased'.]] Footnote lviii: 'And you united Bards'. ['MS. Addition to British Bards'.] 'And you ye nameless'. ['MS. erased'.]] [Footnote lvix: 'Translation's servile work at length disown And quit Achaia's Muse to court your own'. ['MS. Addition to British Bards'.]] [Footnote lx: 'Let these arise and anxious of applause'. ['British Bards. MS'.]] [Footnote lxi: 'But not in heavy'. ['British Bards. MS'.]] [Footnote lxii: 'Let prurient Southey cease'. ['MS. British Bards'.]] [Footnote lxiii: 'still the babe at nurse'. ['MS'.] 'Let Lewis jilt our nurseries with alarm With tales that oft disgust and never charm'. [Footnote lxiv: 'But thou with powers--' ['MS. British Bards'.]] [Footnote lxv: 'Let MOORE be lewd; let STRANGFORD steal from MOORE'. ['MS. First to Fourth Editions'.]] [Footnote lxvi: 'For outlawed Sherwood's tales.' ['MS. Brit. Bards. Eds.' 1-4.] [Footnote lxvii: 'And even spurns the great Seatonian prize.--'