1-26 = 103-128
27-246 = 143-362
247-262 in Edition 2. = Hobhouse's lines, omitted
263-372 = 418-528
373-470 = 540-637
471-522 = 707-758
523-526 = 761-764
527-586 = 799-858
587-654 = 881-948
655-667 = 961-972
668-696 = 981-1010
Second, Third, Fourth (a) Fifth (Present) Edition Editions (1050 lines). (1070 lines).
1-96 = 1-96
97-521 = 103-527
522-740 = 540-758
741-1050 = 761-1070
Fourth (b) Edition (1052 Fifth (Present) Edition lines). (1070 lines).
1-96 = 1-96
97-521 = 103-528
522-1052 = 540-1070
_Additions in the Second, Third, and Fourth (a) Editions_.
[The lines are numbered as in the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions.]
1-96 Still must I hear ... as you read. 96 123-136 Thus saith the Preacher ... to grovelling Stott. 14 357-411 But if some new-born whim ... lumbering back again. 55 620-688 Or, hail at once ... virtue must apply. 69 745-778 When some brisk youth ... thy pay for coats. 34 839-860 And here let Shee ... and God-like men. 22 929-940 Yet what avails ... blazes, and expires. 12 953-960 There Clarke, still ... libel on mankind. 8 991-1050 Then, hapless Britain, ... unjustly, none declare 60 ---- 370
696-16 (Hobhouse's lines) = 680 + 370 = 1050.
_Addition in Fourth Edition_ (1811).
741-742 Through Crusca's bards ... columns still. 2
1050 + 2 = 1052.
_Additions in the Fifth (Present) Edition_.
97-102 'But hold!' exclaims ... shine with Pye. 6 528-539 Then, prosper, Jeffrey ... inspires thy pen. 12 --- 18
1052 + 18 = 1070.
_Emendations of the Text of the Fourth Edition (b) included in the text of the Fifth and Present Editions_.
Fourth Fifth Edition. Edition.
Line. Line.
28 _And men through life her willing slaves obey_.
Obeyed by all who nought beside obey. 28
30 _Unfolds her motley store to suit the time_.
Bedecks her cap with bells of every clime. 30
32 _When Justice halts, and Right begins to fail_.
And weigh their Justice in a golden scale. 32
71 _Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit_.
Fear not to lie,'twill seem a _sharper_ hit. 71
173 _Low may they sink to merited contempt_, 174 _And scorn remunerate the mean attempt_.
Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain! 179 And sadly gaze on Gold they cannot gain. 180
257 _How well the subject suits his noble mind_!
258 _"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind_."
So well the subject suits his noble mind, 263 He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind. 264
303 _In many marble-covered volumes view_ 304 _Hayley, in vain attempting something new_: 305 _Whether he spin his comedies in rhyme_, 306 _Or scrawl, as Wood and Barclay walk, 'gainst time_.
Behold--Ye Tarts!--one moment spare the text! 309 HAYLEY'S last work, and worst--until his next; 310 Whether he spin poor couplets into plays, 311 Or damn the dead with purgatorial praise. 312
323 _And shows, dissolved in thine own melting tears_.
And shows, still whimpering thro' threescore of years. 329
327 _Whether in sighing winds thou seek'st relief_ 328 _Or consolation in a yellow leaf_.
Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief, 333 The fall of empires or a yellow leaf. 334
385 _Fresh fish from Helicon! Who'll buy! Who'll buy_?
Fresh fish from Hippocrene! who'll buy? who'll buy? 391
387 _Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight_, 388 _Too much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the night_.
Your turtle-feeder's verse must needs be flat, 393 Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat. 394