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['Proof b, British Museum'.]]
[Footnote xxi:
'As Custom fluctuates whose Iron Sway Though ever changing Mortals must obey'.
['MS. M'.]]
[Footnote xxii:
'To mark the Majesty of Epic song'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]]
[Footnote xxiii:
'But which is preferable rhyme or blank Which holds in poesy'.
['MS. L'. ('a').]
[Footnote xxiv:
--'ventures to appear.--'
['MS. Corr. in Proof b, British Museum'.]
[Footnote xxv:
'And Harry Monmouth, till the scenes require, Resigns heroics to his sceptred Sire.'
['MS. L'. (a).]]
[Footnote xxvi:
'To "hollaing Hotspur" and the sceptred sire.'--
['MS. Corr. in Proof b, British Museum'.]]
[Footnote xxvii:
'Dull as an Opera, I should sleep or sneer.'
['MS. M'.]]
[Footnote xxviii:
'And for Emotion's aid 'tis said and sung'.
['MS. L, (a)'.]]
[Footnote xxix:
'or form a plot'.
['Proof b, British Museum'.]]
[Footnote x.x.x:
'Whate'er the critic says or poet sings 'Tis no slight task to write on common things'.
['MS. L. (a).']]
[Footnote x.x.xi:
'Ere o'er our heads your Muse's Thunder rolls.'
['MS. L. (a)'.]]
[Footnote x.x.xii:
'Earth, Heaven and h.e.l.l, are shaken with the Song.'
['MS. L. (a)'.]]
[Footnote x.x.xiii:
'Through deeds we know not, though already done,'
['MS. L. (a)'.]]
[Footnote x.x.xiv:
'What soothes the people's, Peer's, and Critic's ear.'
['MS. L. (a)'.]]
