... self-sufficient ...

The edition of 1815 returns to the text of 1800.

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[Footnote A:]

D. D., not M. D. The physician is referred to in the fifth stanza.—Ed.

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[Footnote B:]

Compare Thomson's description of the Bard, in his Castle of Indolence (canto ii., stanza xxxiii.):

'He came, the bard, a little Druid wight,
Of withered aspect; but his eye was keen,
With sweetness mixed. In russet brown bedight,
He crept along, etc.'