'Dull as an Opera, I should sleep or sneer.' ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote xxviii: 'And for Emotion's aid 'tis said and sung'. ['MS. L, (a)'.]] [Footnote xxix: 'or form a plot'. ['Proof b, British Museum'.]] [Footnote xxx: 'Whate'er the critic says or poet sings 'Tis no slight task to write on common things'. ['MS. L. (a).']] [Footnote xxxi: 'Ere o'er our heads your Muse's Thunder rolls.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xxxii: 'Earth, Heaven and Hell, are shaken with the Song.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xxxiii: 'Through deeds we know not, though already done,' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xxxiv: 'What soothes the people's, Peer's, and Critic's ear.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xxxv: 'And Vice buds forth developed with his Teens.' [MS. M.]] [Footnote xxxvi: 'The beardless Tyro freed at length from school. [MSS. L. (b), M. erased'.] 'And blushing Birch disdains all College rule. [MS. M. erased'.] 'And dreaded Birch. [MS. L.' (a' and 'b').]] [Footnote xxxvii: 'Unlucky Tavell! damned to daily cares By pugilistic Freshmen, and by Bears.' ['MS. M. erased'.]] [Footnote xxxviii: 'Ready to quit whatever he loved before, Constant to nought, save hazard and a whore.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xxxix: 'The better years of youth he wastes away.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xl: 'Master of Arts, as all the Clubs proclaim.' ['MS. L. (b)'.]] [Footnote xli: 'Scrapes wealth, o'er Grandam's endless jointure grieves.' ['MS. erased'.] 'O'er Grandam's mortgage, or young hopeful's debts.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] 'O'er Uncle's mortgage.' ['MS. L. (b)'.]] [Footnote xlii: 'Your plot is told or acted more or less.' ['MS. M.']] [Footnote xliii: 'To greater sympathy our feelings rise When what is done is done before our eyes.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xliv: 'Appalls an audience with the work of Death-- To gaze when Hubert simply threats to sere.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xlv: 'Nor call a Ghost, unless some cursed hitch Requires a trapdoor Goblin or a Witch.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xlvi: 'This comes from Commerce with our foreign friends These are the precious fruits Ausonia sends.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote xlvii: 'Our Giant Capital where streets still spread Where once our simpler sins were bred.' ['MS. L. (a).'] 'Our fields where once the rustic earned his bread.' ['MS. L. (b)'.]] [Footnote xlviii: 'Aches with the Orchestra he pays to hear. [MS. M.']] [Footnote xlix: 'Scarce kept awake by roaring out encore.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote l: 'Ere theatres were built and reverend clerks Wrote plays as some old book remarks.' [MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote li: 'Who did what Vestris--yet, at least,--cannot, And cut his kingly capers "Sans culotte."' ['MS. M.']] [Footnote lii: 'Who yet squeaks on nor fears to be forgot If good Earl Grosvenor supersede them not'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]