5 He walks & stumbles as if he crep,
And how high labour'd is every step ! '
Newton and Bacon cry ' Being badly Nurst,
He is all Experiments from last to first.'
5, 6 He . . . step] A marginal addition. 6 labour'd] finished EY.
7, 8 Newton . . . first] An addition. 7 cry] EY omit. 8 Experiments]
experiment EY.
xcix
On the great encouragement given by
English Nobihty & Gentry to Cor-
reggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gains-
borough, Catalani, Du Crow, and
Dilbury Doodle
1 As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife
For a Sword, or a Cutlass, a dagger, or Knife ;
So the taught, savage Englishman, spends his whole
Fortune
On a smear, or a squall, to destroy Picture or tune,
5 And I call upon Colonel Wardle
To give these Rascals a dose of Caudle.
MS. Book, p. 40, title an addition. DGR (' Epig.' 3), WMR (' Epig.' ix)
prints under this title c, xcix, ci. EY i. 222. DGR, WMR omit ' Du Crow,'
and insert ' Rembrandt ' after ' Rubens ' in title ; EY insert ' The ' before
'English," omit 'and Gentry,' and read ' Catelans ' for 'Catalani.'
2 For . . . Knife] For a button, a Bauble [buckle 2nd rdg. del.], a bead, or
a knife MS. Book 15^ rdg. del., DGR, WMR, EY. 3 taught] wise MS.
Book 1st rdg. del., EY ; learned ibid. 2nd rdg. del. 4 On] For ibid. 1st
rdg. del., EY; to destroy] that is not MS. Book 1st rdg. del., EY. 5, 6
And . . . Caudle] EY print this couplet after c. 5 Wardle] Warble
EY. For Col. Wardle see Examiner, 1809 passim.
