Compell’d to feast in full delight When I was sad and wanted power, Can I forget that dismal night? Ah! how did I survive the hour?
instead of ll. 39-41:
And there my father-husband stood— I felt no words can tell you how— As he was wont in angry mood, And thus he cried, “Will God allow,
Preface: p. 92, l. 21. The following footnote to the words, His Dedication, was omitted in Vol. I: Neither of these were adopted. The author had written, about that time, some verses to the memory of Lord Robert Manners, brother to the late Duke of Rutland; and these, by a junction, it is presumed, not forced or unnatural, form the concluding part of “The Village.”
END OF VOL. II.
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Footnotes
[ [1] Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1.
[ [2] The reader will perceive in these and the preceding verses allusions to the state of France, as that country was circumstanced some years since, rather than as it appears to be in the present date; several years elapsing between the alarm of the loyal magistrate on the occasion now related, and a subsequent event that farther illustrates the remark with which the narrative commences.