mission, Vol. VIII, is a notice of this ode. It is in a package containing many papers relating to Steele and Addison, among them one hundred letters to the authors of the Tatler and the Spectator.
P. lvi, 1.3: ". ... her Spleen had attained the dignity of a second edition." —See The Spleen: A Pindarique Ode, By a Lady. Together with a Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay, 1709. The Prospect of Death was by John Pomfret who had died in 1702.
P. lvi, 1. 31: "Courthope conjectures," etc—See Pope, Works (Elwin and Courthope), Vol. I, p. 20, note; Vol. VI, p. 198, note.
P. Ixxvii, 1. 16: "The note runs thus."—Throughout these letters by Wordsworth the page references were to the edition of 1713. They have been changed here to correspond with the pages of this edition.
P. lxxxix, 1.3: " Versification."—for the following references to Swift, Pope, and Dryden see Pope, Works (Elwin and Courthope), Vol. I, p. 338. In Essays of John Dryden (ed. W. P. Ker, Oxford, 1900) see "Dedication" to Aeneis, 'Vol. II, pp. 215-30 (passim) and " Dedication " of Examen Poeticum, Vol. II, pp. 10-11.
THE PREFACE
P. 8,1. 24: "From their new Worlds, I know not where."— [Cowley.] The lines occur in Cowley's Complaint.
P. 9. i. 31: ". . . . correct Essay
Which so repairs our old Horatian way."
{L* Roscommon on Ld Mulgrave's Essay on poetry.] The quotation is from Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse (1684). Mulgrave's Essay on Poetry appeared in 1682.
P. 10, 1.26: " .... the two short pieces of that Pastoral."— [A scene or two more have been translated from the Italian and since added, at the end of the first part of the Book.] The two short pieces from the Aminta are Though we of small proportion see and Then by some Fountain's fiow'ry side. They number 5 and 6 in the folio MS. The other three pieces from the Aminta number 60, 61, 62, in the MS., and just precede the religious poems.
P.10, 1.27: ". . . . the Songs and other few lighter things." — In the MS. " Fables" is inserted in pencil after "Songs," the list of "lighter things " having apparently been made before the writing of the Fables.
P. 11, 1.6: "My Lord Roscommon under the name of Piso."
