FOOTNOTES:
[157:1] First published in the Cambridge Intelligencer, December 17, 1796: included in the Quarto Edition of the Ode on the Departing Year, 1796, in Sibylline Leaves, 1828, 1829, and 1834. The lines were sent in a letter to John Thelwall, dated December 17, 1796 (Letters of S. T. C., 1895, i. 207, 208).
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[Title]] Lines, &c., C. I.: To a Young Man who abandoned himself to a causeless and indolent melancholy MS. Letter, 1796.
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These lines were omitted in the MS. Letter and 4o 1796, but were replaced in Sibylline Leaves, 1817.
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Or seek some widow's MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1796.
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