[Sub-Footnote A: [Peter Isaac Thellusson, banker (died July 21, 1797), by his will directed that his property should accumulate for the benefit of the unborn heir of an unborn grandson. The will was, finally, upheld, but, meanwhile, on July 28, 1800, an act (39 and 40 Geo. III.c.98) was passed limiting such executory devises.]] [Footnote lxxii: 'A groat--ah bravo! Dick's the boy for sums He'll swell my fifty thousand into plums'. ['MS. L'. ('a').]] [Footnote lxxiii: 'Are idle dogs and (damn them!) always poor'.-- ['MS. L'. ('a' and 'b').]] [Footnote lxxiv: 'Unlike Potosi holds no silver mine'. ['MS. L'. ('a').] 'Keeps back his ingots like'} 'Is rather costive--like' } 'an Irish Mine'. 'Is no Potosi, but' } ['MS. L'. ('b').]] [Footnote lxxv: 'Write but recite not, e'en Apollo's song Mouthed in a mortal ear would seem too long, Long as the last year of a lingering lease, When Revel pauses until Rents increase'. ['MS. M. erased'.]] [Footnote lxxvi: 'To finish all'. ['MS. L'. ('b').] 'That Bard the mask will fit'. ['MS. L'. ('b').]] [Footnote lxxvii: 'Revenge defeats its object in the dark And pistols (courage bullies!) miss their mark.' ['MS. L. (a).'] And pistols (courage duellists!) miss their mark. ['MS. L. (b)'.]] [Footnote lxxviii: 'Though much displeased.' ['MS. L. (a and b)'.]] [Footnote lxxix: 'The scrutiny.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote lxxx: 'Oh ye aspiring youths whom fate or choice.' ['MS. L. (a)'.]] [Footnote lxxxi: 'All are not Erskines who adorn the bar.' ['MS. M'.]] [Footnote lxxxii: 'With very middling verses to offend The Devil and Jeffrey grant but to a friend.' ['MS. L. (a).'] 'Though what "Gods, men, and columns" interdict, The Devil and Jeffrey [A] pardon--in a Pict.' ['MS. M.']]