The world will find thee after many days.'
When Southey's read, and Wordsworth understood,
I can't help putting in my claim to praise—
The four first rhymes are Southey's, every line:
For God's sake, reader! take them not for mine!
Byron: Don Juan, Canto I., ccxxii.
[P. 62.] Theatrical Alarm Bell. By James Smith.
committee of O.P.'s, etc. Referring to the tumultuous scenes at Covent Garden Theatre in 1809, when for sixty-seven successive nights there was uproar due to the attempt of the management to raise the prices of admission. Both James and Horace Smith appear to have written verse contributions to the newspaper warfare which accompanied, and served to stimulate, the disturbance in the theatre in favour of Old Prices.
[P. 64.] The Theatre. By James Smith. Spencer, referred to in the footnote, is the writer of society verse parodied in The Beautiful Incendiary (p. 42).
[P. 69.] To the Managing Committee, etc. By James Smith.