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to be the Fourth Edition of 1811, is probably spurious. It is the survival of a distinct issue from other genuine or spurious copies of the Fourth Edition.

The spurious issues of the Third and Fourth Editions, whether they were printed in Ireland or were secretly thrown upon the market by James Cawthorn after Byron had definitely selected Murray as his publisher, were designed for the general reader and not for the collector. The issue of a spurious First Edition after the improved and enlarged editions of 1809-11 were published, must have been designed for the Byron enthusiast, if not the collector of First Editions.

The Grangerized Fourth Editions prepared by Mr. W. M. Tartt and Mr. Evans in 1819, 1820, and a Third, by John Murray at about the same period, and, more remarkable still, a copy of the Fourth Edition of 1811, prefaced by a specially printed "List of Names mentioned in the English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers," interleaved with the additions made in the Fifth Edition (B.M.), point to the existence of a circle of worshippers who were prepared to treat Byron's Juvenilia as seriously as the minute critics of the present generation. They seem to have been sufficiently numerous. to make piracy, if not forgery, profitable.

Note (2).—CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FIrst Edition as NUMBERED AND THE PRESENT ISSUE AS NUmbered.

First Edition (696 lines). Fifth (Present) Edition (1070 lines)

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Additions in the Second, Third, and Fourth (a) Editions. [The lines are numbered as in the Second, Third, and Fourth

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357-411 But if some new-born whim... lumbering back again. 55 620-688 Or, hail at once... virtue must apply. 745-778 When some brisk youth 839-860 And here let Shee 929-940 Yet what avails 953-960 There Clarke, still.. 991-1050 Then, hapless Britain,

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libel on mankind.

unjustly, none declare

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Addition in Fourth Edition (1811).

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Additions in the Fifth (Present) Edition.

97-102 'But hold!' exclaims. 528-539 Then, prosper, Jeffrey

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Emendations of the Text of the Fourth Edition (b) included in the text of the Fifth and Present Editions.

Fourth Edition.

Line.

28 And men through life her willing slaves obey.
Obeyed by all who nought beside obey.
Unfolds her motley store to suit the time.
Bedecks her cap with bells of

30

32

every clime.

When Justice halts, and Right begins to fail.
And weigh their Justice in a golden scale.
lucky hit.

71 Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a
Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a

sharper hit.

173 Low may they sink to merited contempt, 174 And scorn remunerate the mean attempt.

Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain! And sadly gaze on Gold they cannot gain. 257 How well the subject suits his noble mind! 258 "A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind."

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Fourth Edition.

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So well the subject suits his noble mind,
He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind.

303 In many marble-covered volumes view

304 Hayley, in vain attempting something new :

305 Whether he spin his comedies in rhyme,

Fifth Edition.

Line.

263 264

306 Or scrawl, as Wood and Barclay walk, 'gainst time.
Behold-Ye Tarts !-one moment spare the text!

HAYLEY'S last work, and worst—until his next;
Whether he spin poor couplets into plays,
Or damn the dead with purgatorial praise.

323 And shows, dissolved in thine own melting tears.

327 Whether in sighing winds thou seek'st relief

And shows, still whimpering thro' threescore of years.

328 Or consolation in a yellow leaf.

Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief,
The fall of empires or a yellow leaf.

385 Fresh fish from Helicon! Who'll buy? Who'll buy?
Fresh fish from Hippocrene! who'll buy? who'll buy?

387 Too much in turtle Bristol's sens delight,

388 Too much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the night.

Your turtle-feeder's verse must needs be flat, Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat. 502 First in the ranks illustrious shall be seen.

First in the oat-fed phalanx shall be seen.
511 As he himself was damned, shall try to damn.
Damned like the Devil-Devil-like will damn..
532 And grateful to the founder of the feast,
533 Declare his landlord can translate, at least.

And, grateful for the dainties on his plate,
Declare his landlord can at least translate.

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

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310

311

312

329

333

334

391

393

394

508

517

550

551

While KENNEY'S "World"-ah! where is KENNEY'S wit?— 570

Tires the sad gallery, lulls the listless Pit.

571

563 Let Comedy resume her throne again. Let Comedy assume her throne again.

581

569 Where GARRICK trod, and KEMBLE lives to tread. Where GARRICK trod, and SIDDONS lives to tread.

587

614 Raise not your scythe, Suppressors of our Vice. Whet not your scythe, Suppressors of our Vice.

632

625 The Arbiter of pleasure and of play.

Our arbiter of pleasure and of play.

661 And, kinder still, a PAGET for your wife.

And, kinder still, two PAGETS for your wife. 728 Want your defence, let Pity be your screen.

Want is your plea, let Pity be your screen.

742 Some stragglers skirmish round their columns still. Some stragglers skirmish round the columns still. 815 The spoiler came; and all thy promise fair

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746

760

Fourth Edition.

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Fifth Edition.

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816 Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. The Spoiler swept that soaring Lyre away, Which else had sounded an immortal lay. 891 The native genius with their feeling given. The native genius with their being given.

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903 Let MOORE be lewd; let STRANGFORD steal from Moore. Let MOORE still sigh; let STRANGFORD steal from MOORE. 921

922 For outlawed SHERWOOD's tales of ROBIN HOOD. For SHERWOOD's outlaw tales of ROBIN HOOD.

940

946 And even spurns the great Seatonian prize.

Even from the tempting ore of Seaton's prize.

964

965 So sunk in dullness and so lost in shame,

983

984

987

966 That SMYTHE and HODGSON scarce redeem thy fame.
So lost to Phoebus, that nor Hodgson's verse
Can make thee better, nor poor Hewson's worse.

969 On her green banks a greener wreath is wove.

On her green banks a greener wreath she wove. 972 And modern Britons justly praise their Sires.

And modern Britons glory in their Sires.
984 Earth's chief Dictatress, Ocean's mighty Queen.
Earth's chief Dictatress, Ocean's lovely Queen.
1005 But should I back return, no lettered rage
1006 Shall drag my common-place book on the stage:
1007 Let vain VALENTIA rival luckless CARR,
1008 And equal him whose work he sought to mar.

But should I back return, no tempting press
Shall drag my Journal from the desk's recess;
Let coxcombs, printing as they come from far,
Snatch his own wreath of Ridicule from Carr.

990

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1025

1026

1016 I leave topography to classic GELL. I leave topography to rapid GELL.

1034

1018 To stun mankind with Poesy or Prose.

To stun the public ear-at least with Prose. 1049 Thus much I've dared to do; how far my lay. Thus much I've dared: if my incondite lay.

1036

1067

Note (3). THE ANNOTATED COPIES OF THE FOURTH EDITION

OF 1811.

Two annotated copies of the genuine Fourth Edition of English Bards, etc. [1811], with MS. corrections in Byron's handwriting, are extant-one in Mr. Murray's possession, and a second in the Forster Library at the South Kensington Museum. The former, which contains the marginal comments marked "B. 1816," has been assumed to have been prepared as a press copy for the Fifth Edition; but, as the following collation reveals, the latter, which belonged to Leigh Hunt, represents a fuller and later, though not

a final revision.

The half-title bears the inscription, "Byron,

Dec. 31st, 1811. N-d. Ay [i.e. Newstead Abbey] B.

"Dum relego-scripsisse pudet-quia plurima cerno

Me quoque qui feci-judice digna lini-B. Jy 20, 1812." and the verso the words, "Given me by the author on my birthday, Oct. 19, 1815. Leigh Hunt."

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P. 5. ingenious. [The misprint is a note of a genuine copy.]

Lines 173, 174.

Low may they sink to merited contempt,
And scorn remunerate the mean attempt.
Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain,
And sadly gaze on Gold they cannot gain.
[This emendation is not given in the Murray copy.]
Lines 257, 258.
So

How well the subject suits his noble mind!
"A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind."
He brays the Laureat of the long-eared kind!

[The Murray copy, which amends line 258 as above, leaves the "How" unerased, but the Fifth Edition prints "So."]

Lines 323-328.

And shows, dissolved in thine own tears.

still whimpering through threescore years. Whether in sighing winds thou seek'st-relief,

Or consolation in a yellow leaf.

Whether in equal strains thou vent'st thy grief
O'er falling Empires or a yellow leaf.

[The Murray copy gives no emendation.

The Fifth Edition

adopts the first correction, but, for the variant in lines 327, 328, reads

Line 336.

Line 385.

Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief
The fall of Empires or a yellow leaf.]

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[The Murray copy adds a note: "The Fifth Edition reads Hippocrene."]

Lines 387, 388.

Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,

Too much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the nightr
Your turtle-feeder's verse must needs be flat,
Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat.

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