[ [547] [For the "weight" of Southey's quartos, compare Byron's note (1) to Hints from Horace, line 657, and a variant of lines 753-756. "Thus let thy ponderous quarto steep and stink" (Poetical Works, 1898, i. 435, 443).]
[ [ho] {517} And drawing nigh I caught him at a libel.—[MS. erased.]
[ [548] [Compare—
"But for the children of the 'Mighty Mother's,'
The would-be wits, and can't-be gentlemen,
I leave them to their daily 'tea is ready,'
Smug coterie, and literary lady."
Beppo, stanza lxxvi. lines 5-8, vide ante, [p. 183].]
[ [hp] {518}
And scrawls as though he were head clerk to the "Fates,"
And this I think is quite enough for one.—[Erased.]
[ [549][Compare—
"One leaf from Southey's laurels may explode
All his combustibles,
'An ass, by God!'"
A Satire on Satirists, etc., by W. S. Landor, 1836, p. 22.]