Book XX.
Instead of ll. 54–5:
“To take my way, break in on no one’s plan,
Filling a pause—‘the poor disorder’d man!’” (O.M.)
POSTHUMOUS TALES. Variants in Crabbe MSS. in the possession of the Cambridge University Press.
Variants in Crabbe MSS. in the possession of Professor Edward Dowden. These are distinguished as ‘D.’
‘Original MS.’ readings given as footnotes in Life and Poems (1834). These are distinguished as ‘O.M.’
Tale I.
The Tale opens:
There was a Youth, and we would call him poor,