1049 _Thus much I've dared to do; how far my lay_. Thus much I've dared: if my incondite lay. 1067 _Note_ (3).--THE ANNOTATED COPIES OF THE FOURTH EDITION OF 1811. Two annotated copies of the genuine Fourth Edition of _English Bards, etc._ [1811], with MS. corrections in Byron's handwriting, are extant--one in Mr. Murray's possession, and a second in the Forster Library at the South Kensington Museum. The former, which contains the marginal comments marked "B. 1816," has been assumed to have been prepared as a press copy for the Fifth Edition; but, as the following collation reveals, the latter, which belonged to Leigh Hunt, represents a fuller and later, though not a final revision. The half-title bears the inscription, "Byron, Dec. 31^st^, 1811. N--d. A^y [_i.e._ Newstead Abbey] B. "_Dum relego--scripsisse pudet--quia plurima cerno-- Me quoque--qui feci--judice digna lini_--B. J^y 20, 1812." and the verso the words, "Given me by the author on my birthday, Oct. 19, 1815. Leigh Hunt." u P. 5. ingen(-i-)ous. [The misprint is a note of a genuine copy.] Lines 173, 174. (-Low may they sink to merited contempt-) (-And scorn remunerate the mean attempt.-) Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on Gold they cannot gain. [This emendation is not given in the Murray copy.] Lines 257, 258. So (-How-) well the subject suits his noble mind! (-"A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind,"-) He brays the Laureat of the long-eared kind! [The Murray copy, which amends line 258 as above, leaves the "How" unerased, but the Fifth Edition prints "So."] Lines 323-328. And shows, (-dissolved in thine own tears-). still whimpering through threescore years. (-Whether in sighing-winds thou seek'st relief,-) (-Or consolation in a yellow leaf.-) Whether in equal strains thou vent'st thy grief O'er falling Empires or a yellow leaf. [The Murray copy gives no emendation. The Fifth Edition adopts the first correction, but, for the variant in lines 327, 328, reads-- Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief The fall of Empires or a yellow leaf.] Line 336. All love thy (-strain-) rhyme Line 385. Fresh fish from (-Helicon-) Hippocrene [The Murray copy adds a note: "The Fifth Edition reads Hippocrene."] Lines 387, 388. (-Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,-) (-Too much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the night.-) Your turtle-feeder's verse must needs be flat, Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat. [The Murray copy does not contain this emendation, which was adopted in the Fifth Edition. P. 36 _n._ The Hunt copy gives in MS. the note concerning Moore--"I am informed," etc.--which is printed in the Fifth Edition. There is no similar annotation in the Murray copy.