[101] From the edition of 1815. This was Freneau's salutatory in the first number of the Time-Piece, March 13, 1797. Here it bore the title "Poetical Address" and differed in many respects from the final version. I have indicated in the following notes only the most significant revisions.
[102] "Our pages."—Time-Piece.
[103] "We'll mend what is middling, and better the bad."—Ib.
[104] "And give the due substance and sum of the News."—Ib.
"Embark'd on this ocean, and wishing no fray,
We'll strive for a chance with the prints of the day;
The news of all nations import from all climes,
And carefully copy the cast of The Times."—Time-Piece.
[106] "In political squib or poetical wit."—Ib.
[107] "He's equally free to return it in kind."—Ib.
[108] "We'll join."—Ib.
[109] "Britain."—Ib.