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S—— in Childhood, on the nursery floor,
Was extreme Old and most extremely poor :
He has grown old & rich & what he will :
He is extreme old & extreme poor still.
MS. Book, p. 27. EY i. 213, WBY (' Coupl. and Frag.' 19), 1 S——] Stothard WBY. on] upon EY.4 & extreme] and is extreme WBY. Cp. ' Epigrams from Reynolds' Discourses' (v).
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To Nancy F——
How can I help thy Husband's copying Me?
Should that make difference 'twixt me and thee?
MS. Book, p. 27. Only in EY i. 213. Cp. Advertisement (MS. Book, P' 53): ' Flaxman cannot deny that one of the very first monuments he did I gratuitously designed for him, and at the same time he was blasting my character to Macklin my employer, as Macklin told me at the time. How much of his Homer and Dante he will allow to be mine I do not know, as he went far enough off to publish them, even to Italy, but the public will know.'
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Of H 's birth this was the happy lot:
His Mother on his Father him begot.
MS. Book, p. 27. Swinb. p. 38, WMR (' Coupl.' xxi. 4), EY i. 213, WBY
(' Coupl.' 20).
1 H——'s] Hayley's Swinb., WMR, WBY. this] there EY. 2 Mother
on his Father] mother or his father EY.
