or,
'Which wraps presumption'.
['MS. M. erased'.]]
[Footnote viii:
'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'.