xcvi
Learn the laborious stumble of a Fool !
Go, send your Children to the Slobbering School !
MS. Book, p. 39. WMR as conclusion of xciii, xcv, interpolating
between lines i and 2 the line, presumably his own : —
- ' And from an idiot's action form my rule I '
EY i. 221 invert order of the two lines.
2 Go, send] Go and send EY. Slobbering] globbering EY.
xcvii
If I e'er Grow to Man's Estate,
O ! Give to me a Woman's fate.
May I govern all, both great & small,
Have the last word, and take the wall.
MS. Book, p. 39. DGR ('Coupl.' ix), WMR, EY ('Coupl.' xi), WBY
(' Coupl.' 12).
1 I e'er] e'er I DGR, WMR, EY, WBY. e'en I] EY (Index, MS.
Book, i. asi).
xcviii
The cripple every step drudges & labours, 1
And says : ' Come, learn to walk of me, Good Neighbours.'
Sir Joshua in astonishment cries out:
' See, what Great Labour ! Pain in Modest Doubt !
MS. Book, p. 39. Gil. (first 4 11. only) i. 265, EY i. 221, 222. Cp.
Advertisement (MS. Book, p. 19): 'Who that has eyes cannot see that
Rubens & Corregio must have been very weak & vulgar fellows ? And
are we to imitate their execution ? This is like what Sir Francis Bacon
says : — that a healthy child should be taught & compelled to walk like
a cripple, while the cripple must be taught to walk like healthy people. O,
rare wisdom ! '
1 drudges] smudges EY. 4 See . . . Doubt] His pains are more than
others, there 's no doubt MS. Book 1st rdg. del. EY insert this after 1. 4
as part of the poem. Pain in] springs from Gil.
