[Footnote 80: If "dosed with," etc. be censured as low, I beg leave to refer to the original for something still lower; and if any reader will translate "Minxerit in patrios cineres," etc. into a decent couplet, I will insert said couplet in lieu of the present.] [Footnote i: ATHENS, 'March 2nd, 1811'. ['MS. L.' (a).] ATHENS, 'March 12th, 1811'. ['MS. L. (i), MS. M.']] [Footnote ii: 'If [A] West or Lawrence, (take whichever you will) Sons of the Brush, supreme in graphic skill, Should clap a human head-piece on a mare, How would our Exhibition's loungers stare! Or should some dashing limner set to sale My Lady's likeness with a Mermaid's tail.' ['MS. L.' (a).] 'The features finished, should superbly deck My Lady's likeness with a Filly's neck; Or should some limner mad or maudlin group A Mermaid's tail and Maid of Honour's Hoop.' ['MS. L. '(b).] ] [Sub-Footnote A: I have been obliged to dive into the "Bathos" for the simile, as I could not find a description of these Painters' merits above ground. "Si liceat parvis Componere magna"-- "Like London's column pointing to the skies Like a 'tall Bully', lifts its head and lies" I was in hopes might bear me out, if the monument be like a Bully. West's glory may be reduced by the scale of comparison. If not, let me have recourse to 'Tom Thumb the Great' [Fielding's farce, first played 1730] to keep my simile in countenance.--['MS. L. (b) erased]] [Footnote iii: After line 6, the following lines (erased) were inserted:-- 'Or patch a Mammoth up with wings and limbs, And fins of aught that flies or walks or swims'. ['MS. M'.] Another variant ran-- 'Or paint (astray from Truth and Nature led) A Judge with wings, a Statesman with a Head'! ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote iv: 'Believe me, Hobhouse'. ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote v: 'as we scribblers'. ['MSS. L'. ('a' and 'b'), 'MS. M'.]] [Footnote vi: 'Like Wardle's'[A] 'speeches'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]] [Sub-Footnote A: [Gwyllim Lloyd Wardle (1762-1834), who served in Ireland in 1798, as Colonel of the Welsh Fusiliers, known as "Wynne's lambs," was M.P. for Okehampton 1807-12. In January, 1809, he brought forward a motion for a parliamentary investigation into the exercise of military patronage by the Duke of York, and the supposed influence of the Duke's mistress, Mary Anne Clarke.]] [Footnote vii: 'As pertness lurks beneath a legal gown. And nonsense in a lofty note goes down'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]] or, 'Which covers all things like a Prelate's gown'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]] or, 'Which wraps presumption'. ['MS. M. erased'.]] [Footnote viii: