[Footnote xlii:
'While Kenny's World just suffered to proceed Proclaims the audience very kind indeed'.--
['MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions'.]]
[Footnote xliii:
'Resume her throne again'.--
['MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions.']]
[Footnote xliv:--
'and Kemble lives to tread'.--
['British Bards. First to Fourth Editions.']]
[Footnote xlv:
'St. George [A] and Goody Goose divide the prize.'--
[MS. alternative in British Bards.]
[Sub-Footnote A: We need not inform the reader that we do not allude to the Champion of England who slew the Dragon. Our St. George is content to draw status with a very different kind of animal.--[Pencil note to 'British Bards'.]]]
[Footnote xlvi:
'Its humble flight to splendid Pantomimes'.
['British Bards. MS']]
[Footnote xlvii:
'Behold the new Petronius of the times The skilful Arbiter of modern crimes.'
['MS.']
[Footnote xlviii:
'----a Paget for your wife.'
['MS. First to Fourth Editions.']]
[Footnote xlix:
'From Grosvenor Place or Square'.
['MS. British Bards'.]]
[Footnote l:
'On one alone Apollo deigns to smile And crowns a new Roscommon in Carlisle.'
['MS. Addition to British Bards.']
'Nor e'en a hackneyed Muse will deign to smile On minor Byron, or mature Carlisle.'
[First Edition.]
[Footnote li:
'Yet at their fiat----'
'Yet at their nausea----.'
['MS. Addition to British Bards'.]]
[Footnote lii:
'Such sneering fame.'
['British Bards']
[Footnote liii:
'Though Bell has lost his nightingales and owls, Matilda snivels still and Hafiz howls, And Crusca's spirit rising from the dead Revives in Laura, Quiz, and X. Y. Z.'--
['British Bards. First to Third Editions', 1810.]]
[Footnote liv:
'None since the past have claimed the tribute due'.
['British Bards. MS'.]]
[Footnote lv: