'As when the poet to description yields Of waters gliding through the goodly fields; The Groves of Granta and her Gothic Halls, Oxford and Christchurch, London and St. Pauls, Or with a ruder flight he feebly aims To paint a rainbow or the River Thames. Perhaps you draw a fir tree or a beech, But then a landscape is beyond your reach; Or, if that allegory please you not, Take this--you'ld form a vase, but make a pot'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]] [Footnote ix: 'Although you sketch a tree which Taste endures, Your ill-daubed Shipwreck shocks the Connoisseurs.' ['MS. M.']] [Footnote x: 'The greater portion of the men of rhyme Parents and children or their Sires sublime'. ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote xi: 'But change the malady they strive to cure'. ['MS. L. (a').]] [Footnote xii: 'Fish in the woods and wild-boars in the waves'. ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote xiii: 'For Coat and waistcoat Slowshears is your man, But Breeches claim another Artisan; Now this to me I own seems much the same As one leg perfect and the other lame'. ['MSS. M., L. (a').] 'Sweitzer is your man'. [MS. M. 'erased'.]] [Footnote xiv: 'Him who hath sense to make a skilful choice Nor lucid Order, nor the Siren Voice Of Eloquence shall shun, and Wit and Grace (Or I'm deceived) shall aid him in the Race: These too will teach him to defer or join To future parts the now omitted line: This shall the Author like or that reject, Sparing in words and cautious to select: Nor slight applause will candid pens afford To him who well compounds a wanting word, And if, by chance, 'tis needful to produce Some term long laid and obsolete in use'.-- ['MSS. M., L'. ('a' and 'b'). 'The last line partly erased.'] [Footnote xv: 'The dextrous Coiner of a' wanting 'word'.-- ['Proof b, British Museum'.]] [Footnote xvi: 'Adroitly grafted.' ['Proof b, British Museum'.]] [Footnote xvii: 'Since they enriched our language in their time In modern speeches or Black letter rhyme.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xviii: 'Though at a Monarch's nod, and Traffic's call Reluctant rivers deviate to Canal'. ['MSS. M., L'. ('a' and 'b').]] [Footnote xix: 'marshes dried, sustain'. ['Proof b, British Museum'.]] [Footnote xx: 'Thus--future years dead volumes shall revive'. ['Proof b, British Museum'.]] [Footnote xxi: 'As Custom fluctuates whose Iron Sway Though ever changing Mortals must obey'. ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote xxii: 'To mark the Majesty of Epic song'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]] [Footnote xxiii: 'But which is preferable rhyme or blank Which holds in poesy'. ['MS. L'. ('a').] [Footnote xxiv: --'ventures to appear.--' ['MS. Corr. in Proof b, British Museum'.] [Footnote xxv: 'And Harry Monmouth, till the scenes require, Resigns heroics to his sceptred Sire.' ['MS. L'. (a).]] [Footnote xxvi: 'To "hollaing Hotspur" and the sceptred sire.'-- ['MS. Corr. in Proof b, British Museum'.]] [Footnote xxvii: