'But after toil-inked thumbs and bitten nails Scratched head, ten quires--the easy scribbler fails'.--
['MS. L'. ('a').]
[Footnote lix:
'The one too rustic, t'other too refined'.
['MS. L'. ('a' and 'b').]]
[Footnotes lx:
'Offensive most to men with house and land Possessed of Pedigree and bloody hand'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
Footnote lxi:
'Composed for any but the lightest strain'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
Footnote lxii:
'And must I then my'--
['MS.L'. ('a').]
[Footnote lxiii:
'Ye who require Improvement'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
[Footnote lxiv:
'And Tragedy, whatever stuff he spoke Now wants high heels, long sword and velvet cloak'.--
['MS. L'. ('a') 'erased'.]]
[Footnote lxv:
'Curtail or silence the offensive jest'.
['MS. M'.]
'Curtail the personal or smutty jest'.
['MS. L'. ('a') 'erased'.]]
[Footnote lxvi:
'Overthrow whole books with all their hosts of faults'.--
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
[Footnotes lxvii:
'So that not Hellebore with all its juice'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
[Footnote lxviii:
'I'll act instead of whetstone--blunted, but Of use to make another's razor cut'.
['MS. L.' ('a').]]
[Footnote lxix:
'From Horace show the better arts of song'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
[Footnote lxx:
'To Trade, but gave their hours to arms and arts'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]
'With traffic'.
['MS. L'. ('b').]]
[Footnote lxxi: