The Works of Lord Byron Volume I Part 101

[Footnote xlii:

'While Kenny's World just suffered to proceed Proclaims the audience very kind indeed'.--

['MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions'.]]

[Footnote xliii:

'Resume her throne again'.--

['MS. British Bards. First to Fourth Editions.']]

[Footnote xliv:--

'and Kemble lives to tread'.--

['British Bards. First to Fourth Editions.']]

[Footnote xlv:

'St. George [A] and Goody Goose divide the prize.'--

[MS. alternative in British Bards.]

[Sub-Footnote A: We need not inform the reader that we do not allude to the Champion of England who slew the Dragon. Our St. George is content to draw status with a very different kind of animal.--[Pencil note to 'British Bards'.]]]

[Footnote xlvi:

'Its humble flight to splendid Pantomimes'.

['British Bards. MS']]

[Footnote xlvii:

'Behold the new Petronius of the times The skilful Arbiter of modern crimes.'

['MS.']

[Footnote xlviii:

'----a Paget for your wife.'

['MS. First to Fourth Editions.']]

[Footnote xlix:

'From Grosvenor Place or Square'.

['MS. British Bards'.]]

[Footnote l:

'On one alone Apollo deigns to smile And crowns a new Roscommon in Carlisle.'

['MS. Addition to British Bards.']

'Nor e'en a hackneyed Muse will deign to smile On minor Byron, or mature Carlisle.'

[First Edition.]

[Footnote li:

'Yet at their fiat----'

'Yet at their nausea----.'

['MS. Addition to British Bards'.]]

[Footnote lii:

'Such sneering fame.'

['British Bards']

[Footnote liii:

'Though Bell has lost his nightingales and owls, Matilda snivels still and Hafiz howls, And Crusca's spirit rising from the dead Revives in Laura, Quiz, and X. Y. Z.'--

['British Bards. First to Third Editions', 1810.]]

[Footnote liv:

'None since the past have claimed the tribute due'.

['British Bards. MS'.]]

[Footnote lv: