Lines 965, 966.
So sunk in dullness and so lost in shame
That Smythe and Hodgson scarce redeem thy fame.
So sunk in dullness that nor Hodgson's verse
Can make thee better—nor poor Hewson's worse.
[This emendation is not in the Murray copy. The Fifth Edition adopts the further correction, "So lost to Phoebus" for "So sunk in dullness.">[
Line 969. "is wove,
she wove.
[This correction is not in the Murray copy.]
Line 972. ——justly praise their sires.
——glory in their sires.
[This emendation is not given in the Murray copy.
The Leigh Hunt copy gives twenty MS. emendations (besides "Death" for "death," in line 820, and the alteration of "rapid" to "rabid" in the note on Hewson Clarke, line 962) including the note on Moore. The Murray copy gives nine MS. emendations, of which six are identical with those in the Hunt copy. Three emendations are peculiar to the Murray copy—]
(1) Lines 303-306.
Behold!—ye tarts! etc. (vide ante, p. 309).
(2) Line 614. Raise not your scythe.
Whet not your scythe.
(3) Line 661. ——"a Paget for your wife.
——two Pagets for your wife.