Was I angry with Hayley who usd me so ill
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Was I angry with Hayley who us'd me so ill.
Or can I be angry with Felpham's old Mill?[2]
Or angry with Flaxman or Cromek or Stothard
Or poor Schiavonetti, whom they to death bother'd?
5 Or angry with Macklin or Boydel or Bowyer,
Because they did not say "O what a Beau ye are"?
At a Friend's Errors Anger shew,
Mirth at the Errors of a Foe.
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Was I angry with Hayley who usd me so ill
Or can I be angry with Felphams old Mill
Or angry with Flaxman or Cromek or Stothard
Or poor Schiavonetti whom they to death botherd
5 Or angry with Macklin or Boydel or Bowyer
Because they did not say O what a Beau ye are
At a Friends Errors Anger shew
Mirth at the Errors of a Foe
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Notes edit
- ↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 538.
- ↑ [Or angry with Boydell or Bowyer or Ba... del.]
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 503.
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