Linenotes

Title] Upon the Author's leaving school and entering into Life. MS. O (c).

tempt] dare MS. O, MS. O (c).

While] When MS. O, MS. O (c).

Between 11-13

How pants my breast before my eyes
While Honour waves her radiant prize.
And Emulation, &c.

MS. O, MS. O (c).

To bend the head, to bow MS. O (c).

frowns] frown MS. O, MS. O (c).

in] of MS. O (c).

Deformed, choaked MS. O, MS. O (c).

brows] brow MS. O, MS. O (c).

magic] wonted MS. O, MS. O (c).

her frown] the fiend MS. O, MS. O (c).

Without, within MS. O, MS. O (c).

is] has MS O, MS. O (c).

Note—Christ's Hospital MS. O: Ottery S. Mary in Devonshire MS. O (c).

[80-1]

'Tis thine with faery forms to talk
And thine the philosophic walk.

Letter to Southey, 1794.

which] that MS. O, MS. O (c), Letter, 1794.

And] The Letter, 1794.

Where grateful oft the big drops start. Letter, 1794. shall] does MS. O (c).

[90-3]

Ah! doubly blest, if Love supply
Lustre to this now heavy eye,
And with unwonted Spirit grace
That fat vacuity of face.
Or if e'en Love, the mighty Love
Shall find this change his power above;
Some lovely maid perchance thou'lt find
To read thy visage in thy mind.

MS. O, MS. O (c).

[32:A] The Author was at this time, aetat. 17, remarkable for a plump face. MS. O (c).

[96-7]

But if thou pour one votive lay
For humble, &c.

Letter, 1794.

Not in Letter.

adown Life's tide MS. O, MS. O (c).

[102-3]

Not in Letter, 1794.