is nothing to be abused when Southey, Moore, Lauderdale, Strangford, and Payne Knight, share the same fate

[4]

.

I am sorry — but "Childish Recollections" must be suppressed during this edition. I have altered, at your suggestion, the

obnoxious allusions

in the sixth stanza of my last ode.

And now, my dear Becher, I must return my best acknowledgments for the interest you have taken in me and my poetical bantlings, and I shall ever be proud to show how much I esteem the

advice

and the

adviser